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SANGERHAUSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 149 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANGERHAUSEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Saxony, situated on the Gonna, near the See also:south See also:base of the Harz mountains, 30 M. W. of See also:Halle, on the See also:main See also:line of railway See also:Berlin-See also:Nordhausen-See also:Cassel. Pop. (1905) 12,439. Among many See also:medieval buildings, the See also:church of St See also:Ulrich, one of the finest specimens of Romanesque See also:architecture in Germany, and the church of St See also:James, with a magnificent See also:altar See also:screen and interesting tombs and See also:effigies, are particularly noticeable. There are a gymnasium, two hospitals dating from the 14th See also:century and an old town-See also:hall. The See also:industries include the manufacture of See also:sugar, See also:furniture, machinery, boots and buttons. See also:Brewing and brickmaking are also extensively carried on, and there is a considerable agricultural See also:trade. Sangerhausen is one of the See also:oldest towns in Thuringia, being mentioned in a document of 991 as appertaining to the estates of the See also:emperor. By See also:marriage it passed to the See also:landgrave of Thuringia, and after 1056 it formed for a while an See also:independent See also:country. Having been again See also:part of Thuringia, it See also:fell in 1249 to See also:Meissen, and in 1291 to See also:Brandenburg. In 1372 it passed to Saxony and formed a portion of that territory until 1815, when it was See also:united with See also:Prussia.

See K. See also:

Meyer, Chronik See also:des landrallichen Kreires Sangerhausen (Nordhausen, 1892); and F. See also:Schmidt, Geschichte der Stadt Sangerhausen (Sangerhausen, 1906).

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