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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARBURG , a seaport See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:southern See also:arm of the See also:Elbe, 6 m. by See also:rail S. of See also:Hamburg. Pop. (1885), 26,320; (1905)—the See also:area of the town having been increased since 1895—55,676. It is pleasantly situated at the See also:foot of a lofty range of hills, which here See also:dip down to the See also:river, at the junction of the See also:main lines of railway from See also:Bremen and Hanover to Hamburg, which are carried to the latter See also:city over two See also:grand See also:bridges See also:crossing the southern and the See also:northern arms of the Elbe. It possesses a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and two See also:Protestant churches, a See also:palace, which from 1524 to 1642 was the See also:residence of the Harburg See also:line of the See also:house of See also:Brunswick, a high-grade See also:modern school, a commercial school and a See also:theatre. The leading See also:industries are the crushing of See also:palm-kernels and See also:linseed and the manufacture of See also:india-See also:rubber, See also:phosphates, See also:starch, nitrate and jute. See also:Machines are manufactured here; See also:beer is brewed, and See also:shipbuilding is carried on. The See also:port is accessible to vessels See also:drawing 18 ft. of See also:water, and, despite its proximity to Hamburg, its See also:trade has of See also:late years shown a remarkable development. It is the See also:chief mart in the See also:empire for See also:resin and palm-oil. The Prussian See also:government proposes establishing here a See also:free port, on the lines of the Freihafen in Hamburg. Harburg belonged originally to the bishopric of Bremen, and received municipal rights in 1297. In 1376 it was See also:united to the principality of See also:Luneburg, along with which it See also:fell in 1705 to Hanover, and in 18o6 to See also:Prussia.

In 1813 and 1814 it suffered considerably from the See also:

French, who then held Hamburg, and who built a See also:bridge between the two towns, which remained See also:standing till 1816. See Ludewig, Geschichte See also:des Schlosses and der Stadt Harburg (Harburg, 1845); and Hoffmeyer, Harburg and See also:die nachste Umgegend (1885).

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