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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 153 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANDECK , a See also:

town and See also:spa in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, on the Biele, 73 M. by See also:rail S. of See also:Breslau and See also:close to the See also:Austrian frontier. Pop. (19o5) 3,481. It is situated at an See also:altitude of 1400 ft. It has manufactures of gloves. Landeck is visited by nearly 1o,000 See also:people annually on See also:account of its warm See also:sulphur See also:baths, which have been known since the 13th See also:century. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the See also:castle of Karpenstein. See Langner, See also:Bad Landeck (See also:Glatz, 1872) ; Schiitze, See also:Die Thermen von Landeck (See also:Berlin, 1895); Wehse, Bad Landeck (Breslau, 1886); See also:Joseph, Die Thermen von Landeck (Berlin, 1887), and Patschovsky, Fiihrer durch Bad Landeck and Umgebung (See also:Schweidnitz, 1902).

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