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HUBERTUSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERTUSBURG , a See also:

chateau in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, near the See also:village of Wermsdorf and midway 6 m. between the towns See also:Oschatz and See also:Grimma. It was built in 1721-1724 by See also:Frederick See also:Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently See also:King Augustus III. of See also:Poland, as a See also:hunting See also:box, and was often the See also:scene of brilliant festivities. It is famous for the See also:peace signed here on the 15th of See also:February 1763, which ended the Seven Years' See also:War. After undergoing various vicissitudes, it now serves the purpose of a lunatic See also:asylum and a training school for See also:nursing sisters. See Riemer, Das Schloss Hubertusburg, sons, and jetzt (Oschatz, 1881).

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