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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NEUNKIRCHEN , or OBER-NEUNKIRCHEN, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine See also:

province, on the Blies, 12 M. N.W. of See also:

SAARBRUCKEN

Saarbrucken by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1905) 32,358, consisting almost equally of Protestants and See also:

ROMAN

Roman Catholics. It contains two See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic Evangelical and a Romanesque Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

church, several See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, and a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to Freiherr von Stumm (d.1901), a former owner of the See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

WORKS

works here. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment is a huge iron-foundry, employing upwards of 4800 hands, and producing about 320,000 tons of See also:

pig-iron per annum; and there are also See also:

BOILER

boiler-works, saw-See also:

mills, See also:

SOAP

soap manufactories and a brewery. Around the town are important See also:

COAL

coal mines from which about 21 million tons of coal are raised annually. The See also:

castle built in 1570 was destroyed in 1797, and is now a ruin. The town is first mentioned in 1280, and became important industrially during the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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