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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLOEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, beautifully situated between two lakes, the large and the small Ploener-See, 20 M. S. from See also:Kiel by the railway to See also:Eutin and See also:Lubeck. Pop. (1905), 3735. It has a See also:palace built about 163o and now converted into a See also:cadet school, a gymnasium and a biological station. See also:Tobacco, See also:soap, soda, See also:beer and See also:furniture are manufactured, and there is a considerable See also:trade in See also:timber and See also:grain. The lakes afford See also:good fishing, and are navigated in summer by steamboats. Ploen is mentioned as See also:early as the 11th See also:century as a Wendish See also:settlement, and a fortified See also:place. It passed in 1559 to See also:Duke See also:John the Younger, founder of the See also:line of Holstein-See also:Sonderburg, on the extinction of which, in 1761, it See also:fell to See also:Denmark, and in 1867, with Schleswig-Holstein, to See also:Prussia. The sons of the See also:emperor See also:William II. received their early See also:education here. See H. Eggers, Schloss and Stadt Ploen (Kiel, 1877), and J.

C. Kinder, Urkundenbuch zur Chronik tier Stadt Ploen (Pl&n, 1890).

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