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HILDBURGHAUSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HILDBURGHAUSEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of See also:Saxe-See also:Meiningen, situated in a wide and fruitful valley on the See also:river Werra, 1g m. S.E. of Meiningen, on the railway See also:Eisenach-Lichtenfels. Pop. (1905) 7456. The See also:principal buildings are a ducal See also:palace, erected 1685—1695, now used as See also:barracks, with a See also:park in which there is a See also:monument to See also:Queen Louisa of See also:Prussia, the old town See also:hall, two Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church and a See also:theatre. A technical See also:college occupies the premises in which See also:Meyer's Bibliographisches Institut carried on business from 1828, when it removed hither from See also:Gotha, until 1874, when it was transferred ,to See also:Leipzig. A monument has been erected to those citizens who died in the Franco-Prussian See also:War of 187o—71. The manufactures include See also:linen fabrics,_ See also:cloth, toys, buttons, See also:optical See also:instruments, agricultural See also:machines, knives, See also:mineral See also:waters, condensed soups and condensed See also:milk. Hildburghausen (in records Hilpershusia and See also:Villa Hilperti) belonged in the 13th See also:century to the See also:counts of Henneberg, from whom it passed to the landgraves of Thuringia and then to the See also:dukes of See also:Saxony. In 1683 it became the See also:capital of a principality which in 1826 was See also:united to Saxe-Meiningen. See R. A.

Human, Chronik der Stadt Hildburghausen (Hildburghausen, 1888).

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