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OBERLAHNSTEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OBERLAHNSTEIN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Rhine, at the confluence of the See also:Lahn 4 M. above See also:Coblenz, on the railway from See also:Cologne to See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main. Pop. (1905) 8472. It still retains parts of its See also:ancient walls and towers, and possesses a See also:castle, the Schloss Martinsburg, formerly the See also:residence of the See also:electors of See also:Mainz, and the See also:chapel, Marien Kapelle, in which the See also:German See also:king See also:Wenceslaus was deposed by the electors in 1400. Near the town is the castle of Lahneck, built about 1290, destroyed by the See also:French in 1689, and restored in 1854. In the neighbourhood are See also:lead and See also:silver mines. See J. Wegeler, Lahneck and Oberlahnstein (See also:Trier, 1881).

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