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HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, on the slopes of the See also:Erzgebirge, and on the railway See also:Reichenbach-See also:Chemnitz, 12 M. N.E. of See also:Zwickau. Pop. (1905) 13,903. Hohenstein possesses two See also:fine Evangelical churches, a town See also:hall, restored in 1876, and several monuments to famous men. The See also:principal See also:industries are the See also:spinning and See also:weaving of See also:cotton, the manufacture of See also:machines, stockings, gloves and woollen and See also:silk fabrics, cotton See also:printing and See also:dyeing. Many of the inhabitants are also employed in the neighbouring See also:copper and See also:arsenic mines. Not far from Hohenstein there is a See also:mineral See also:spring, connected with which there are various kinds of See also:baths. Hohenstein is the birthplace of the physicist G. H. von See also:Schubert and of C. G. See also:Schroter (1699-1782), one of the inventors of the See also:pianoforte.

Hohenstein consists of two towns, Hohenstein and Ernstthal, which were See also:

united in 1898. Another See also:place of the same name is a town in See also:East See also:Prussia. Pop. (1900) 2467. This Hohenstein, which was founded by the See also:Teutonic See also:Order in 1359 , has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and an Evangelical See also:church, a See also:synagogue and several educational establishments.

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