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OELS , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, formerly the See also:capital of a mediatized principality of its own name. It lies in a sandy See also:plain on the Oelsbach, 20 m. N.E. of See also:Breslau by See also:rail. Pop. (1905) 10,940. The princely See also:chateau, now the See also:property of the See also:crown See also:prince of See also:Prussia, dating from 1558 and beautifully restored in 1891–1894, contains a See also:good library and a collection of pictures. Of its three Evangelical churches, the Schlosskirche See also:dates from the 13th See also:century and the Propstkirche from the 14th. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in making shoes and growing vegetables for the Breslau See also:market. Oels was founded about 940, and became a town in 1255. It appears as the capital of an See also:independent principality at the beginning of the 14th century. The principality, with an See also:area of 700 sq. m. and about 130,000 inhabitants, passed through various hands and was inherited by the ducal See also:family of Bruns-See also:wick in 1792. Then on the extinction of this family in 1884 it lapsed to the crown of Prussia.

See W. Hausler, Geschichte See also:

des Furstentums Ols bis zum Aussterben der piastischen Herzogslinie (Breslau, 1883) ; and Schulze, See also:Die See also:Succession See also:im Furstentum Ols (Breslau, 1884).

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