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OFFENBACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 16 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OFFENBACH , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Hesse, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Main, 5 M. S.E. of See also:Frankfort-on-Main, with which it is connected by the railway to Bebra and by a See also:local electric See also:line. Pop. (1905) 58,8o6, of whom about 20,000 were See also:Roman Catholics and 1400 See also:Jews. The most interesting See also:building in the town is the See also:Renaissance See also:chateau of the See also:counts of Isenburg. Offenbach is the See also:principal See also:industrial town of the duchy, and its manufactures are of the most varied description. Its characteristic See also:industry, however, is the manufacture of portfolios, See also:pocket-books, albums and other See also:fancy goods in See also:leather. The earliest mention of Offenbach is in a document of 970. In 1486 it came into the See also:possession of the counts of Isenburg, who made it their See also:residence in 1685, and in 1816, when their lands were mediatized, it was assigned to Hesse. It owes its prosperity in the first See also:place to the industry of the See also:French See also:Protestant refugees who settled here at the end of the 17th, and the beginning of the 18th See also:century, and in the second place to the See also:accession of Hesse to the See also:German See also:Zollverein in 1828. See See also:Jost, Offenbach am Main in Vergangenheit and Gegenu See also:art (Offenbach, 1901); Hager, See also:Die Lederwarenindustrie in Offenbach (See also:Karlsruhe, 1905).

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