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HOLZMINDEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 624 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLZMINDEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of Bruns-See also:wick, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Weser, at the See also:foot of the Sollinger Mountains, at the junction of the See also:railways Scherfede-Holzminden and See also:Soest-Borssum, 56 m. S.W. of See also:Brunswick. Pop. (1905) 9938. It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, a gymnasium, an architectural school and a school of See also:engineering. The prosperity of the town depends chiefly on See also:agriculture and the manufacture of See also:iron and See also:steel wares, and of chemicals, but See also:weaving and the making of pottery are also carried on, and there are baryta See also:mills and polishing-mills for See also:sandstone. By means of the Weser it carries on a lively See also:trade. Holzminden obtained municipal rights from See also:Count See also:Otto of Eberstein in 1245, and in 1410 it came into the See also:possession of Brunswick.

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