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REICHENBACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REICHENBACH , a See also:

town in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, situated in a hilly See also:district, known as the See also:Vogtland, r I m. S.W. of See also:Zwickau, at the junction of the See also:main lines of railway See also:Dresden-See also:Leipzig-See also:Hof. Pop. (1905) 24,915. It contains a handsome town-See also:hall rebuilt in 1833, and a natural See also:history museum. The See also:industries embrace the manufacture of See also:cloth, machinery and carriages, also See also:dyeing and See also:bleaching. The earliest mention of the town occurs in a document of See also:I212, and it acquired municipal rights in 1367. The woollen manufacture was introduced in the 15th See also:century, and took the See also:place of the See also:mining See also:industry which had been established earlier.

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