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POSSNECK , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of See also:Saxe-See also:Meiningen, 21 M. by See also:rail S. of See also:Jena, on the Kotschau. Pop. (1905), 12,702. It has a See also:Gothic Evangelical See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church built about 1390, and a Gothic town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall erected during the succeeding See also:century. Its See also:chief See also:industries are the making of See also:flannel, See also:porcelain, See also:furniture, See also:machines, musical See also:instruments and See also:chocolate. The town has also tanneries, breweries, dyeworks and brickworks. Possneck, which is of See also:Slavonic origin, passed about 1300 to the See also:landgrave of Thuringia. Later it belonged to See also:Saxony and later still to the duchy of Saxe-See also:Coburg-See also:Saalfeld, passing to Saxe-Meiningen in 1826.
See E. See also:Koch, Aus Possnecks Vergangenheit (Possneck, 1894–1895) ; the same writer, Beitrage zur urkundlichen Geschichte der Stadt Possneck (Possneck, 1896–1900) ; and the Geschichte der Stadt Possneck, published by the POssnecker Zeitung (Possneck, 1902).
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