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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and the See also:chief See also:residence of the See also:prince, lies on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Saale, 18 m. S.W. of See also:Jena, by the railway Grossheringen-See also:Saalfeld, in one of the most beautiful districts of Thuringia. Pop. (1905) 12,494. The picturesque town is a favourite tourist resort. Besides containing the See also:government buildings of the little principality, Rudolstadt is well provided with See also:schools and other institutions, including a library of 65,000 volumes. The residence of the prince is the Heidecksburg, a See also:palace on an See also:eminence 200 ft. above the Saale, which was rebuilt after a See also:fire in 1935, and contains a picture See also:gallery, a magnificent banqueting See also:hall and a library. The See also:Ludwigsburg, another palace in the town, built in 1742, accommodates the natural See also:history collections belonging to the prince. The See also:principal See also:church See also:dates from the end of the 15th See also:century and contains tombs and See also:effigies of many former princes. In the Anger, a public See also:park between the town and the See also:river, is the See also:theatre. The Rudolsbad—a handsome hydropathic See also:establishment with a richly decorated interior—lying amidst extensive grounds, is also noticeable. Various memorials in and near the town commemorate the visits of See also:Schiller to the neighbourhood in 1787 and 1788.

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industries of the See also:place include the manufacture of See also:porcelain, See also:chocolate and dye-stuffs, See also:wool-See also:spinning and See also:bell-See also:founding. The name of Rudolstadt occurs in an See also:inventory of the possessions of the See also:abbey of See also:Hersfeld in the See also:year 800. After passing into the See also:possession of the See also:German See also:kings and then of the rulers of Orlamunde and of See also:Weimar, it came into the hands of the See also:counts of Schwarzburg in 1335. Its civic rights were confirmed in 1404, and since 1599 it has been the residence of the ruling See also:house of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. See Renovanz, Chronik von Rudolstadt (Rudolstadt, 1860); Anemuller, Geschichtsbilder aus der Vergangenheit Rudolstadts (Rudolstadt, 1888); and Woerl, Rudolstadt (2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 189o).

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