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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 916 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RATHENOW , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Brandenburg, on the See also:Havel, 45 M. N.W. of See also:Berlin on the See also:main railway to See also:Hanover. Pop. (1905) 23,095, including the See also:garrison. The See also:Protestant See also:church of St See also:Mary and St See also:Andrew, originally a See also:basilica, and transformed to the See also:Gothic See also:style in 1517-1589, and the See also:Roman See also:Catholic church of St See also:George, are noteworthy. Rathenow is known for its "Rathenow stones," bricks made of the See also:clay of the Havel, and for its See also:spectacles and See also:optical See also:instruments, which are exported. Rathenow received its See also:incorporation as a town in 1295. In 1394 it was taken and partly destroyed by the See also:archbishop of See also:Magdeburg. It suffered much from the ravages of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, being occupied in turn by the See also:Saxons and the Swedes, from whom in 1675 it was taken by the Brandenburgers, when most of the garrison were put to the See also:sword. See Wagener, Denkwitrdigkeiten der Stadt Rathenow (Berlin, ' 903).

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