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SPANDAU

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPANDAU , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Brandenburg, at the confluence of the See also:Havel and See also:Spree, 8 m. N.W. of See also:Berlin, of which it is practically a suburb, on the See also:main lines of railway to See also:Hanover and See also:Hamburg respectively. Pop. (1885), 31,463; (1895), 55,813; (1905), 70,295 (including a See also:garrison of about 5000). The town has of See also:recent years made marked progress, its See also:trade being enhanced by an excellent railway service with Berlin and improved See also:navigation on the Havel. The fortifications, which were strengthened after the See also:war, 187o–71, for the See also:protection of the See also:arsenal, have been razed on the See also:northern and eastern sides, and of its former defences none remain except the citadel and a See also:line of See also:works along a See also:ridge of hills to the See also:south of the town. The See also:Julius See also:tower in the citadel, which is surrounded by See also:water, contains the Imperial war treasure (Reichskriegsschatz), —a sum of I6,000,000 in See also:gold, kept in readiness for any warlike emergency, and reserved from the See also:indemnity paid by See also:France after the war of 1870-71. Spandau contains four See also:Protestant churches, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, a gymnasium and a school of musketry. Besides numerous See also:barracks, there are various military establishments appropriate to an important garrison town; and its See also:chief See also:industries are connected with the preparation of munitions of war. The See also:government factories for themanufacture of small arms, See also:artillery, See also:gunpowder, &c., See also:cover upwards of 200 acres, and employ about 6000 workmen. The other industries are not very important; they comprise See also:miscellaneous manufactures, fishing, See also:boat-See also:building, and some See also:shipping on the Havel. Spandau is one of the See also:oldest places in the Altmark, and received civic rights in 1232.

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residence of the See also:Hohenzollern See also:electors of Brandenburg, and was fortified in 1577–1583. In 1635 it surrendered to the Swedes, and in 18o6 to the See also:French, A See also:short investment in 1813 restored it to See also:Prussia. See Zech and See also:Gunther, Geschichtliche Beschreibung der Stadt and Festung Spandau (Spandau, 1847), and Kuntzemiiller, Urkundliche Geschichte der Stadt and Festung Spandau (Spandau, 1881).

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