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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALZBRUNN , a watering-See also:

place of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, at the See also:foot of a well-wooded See also:spur of the See also:Riesengebirge, 3o m. S.W. of See also:Breslau, by the railway to See also:Halberstadt. Pop. (1905) 10,412. It consists of Ober-, Neu- and Nieder-Salzbrunn, has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and an Evangelical See also:church and manufactures of See also:glass, bricks and See also:porcelain. Its alkalo-saline springs, especially efficacious in pulmonary and urinary complaints, were known as See also:early as 1316, but See also:fell into disuse until rediscovered early in the 19th See also:century. The See also:waters are used both for drinking and bathing, and of the two See also:chief springs, the Oberbrunnen and the Kronenquelle, nearly two million bottles are annually exported. The number of summer visitors is about 7000 a See also:year. See Valentiner, Der Kurort Obersalzbrunn (See also:Berlin, 1877); Biefel, Der Kurort Salzbrunn (Salzbrunn, 1872) ; and See also:Deutsch, Schlesiens Heilquellen and Kurorte (Breslau, 1873).

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