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NIEDERLAHNSTEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 669 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIEDERLAHNSTEIN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Rhine at the confluence of See also:Lahn, 3 M. S.E. from See also:Coblenz by the railway to See also:Ems, and at the junction of lines to See also:Hochheim and See also:Cologne. Pop. (1905) 4351. It has two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches. The See also:chief See also:industries are the making of machinery and See also:shipbuilding. Niederlahnstein obtained civic rights in 1332, and was until 1803 on the territory of the See also:electors of See also:Trier. Here on the 1st of See also:January 1814 a See also:part of the See also:Russian See also:army crossed the Rhine. In the vicinity are the Johanniskirche, a Romanesque See also:church restored in 1857, and the Allerheiligenberg, whereon stands a See also:chapel, once a famous See also:place of See also:pilgrimage. NIEDER-SELTERS, a See also:village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, situated in a well-wooded See also:country on the Ems, 12 M. S.E. from See also:Limburg by the railway to Frankiorton-See also:Main. Pop.

(1900) 1339. Here are the springs of the famous Selters or Seltzer See also:

water, employed as specific in cases of See also:catarrh of the See also:respiratory See also:organs, the See also:stomach and See also:bladder. Until 1866 the springs belonged to the See also:duke of Nassau; since this date they have been the See also:property of See also:Prussia. They became famous in the earlier part of the 19th See also:century, although they had been known many years previously. See Grossmann, See also:Die Heilquellen See also:des See also:Taunus (See also:Wiesbaden, 1887).

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