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STASSFURT , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Saxony, and one of the See also:chief seats of the See also:German See also:salt-producing See also:industry, situated on both sides of the See also:Bode, 20 m. S.W. of See also:Magdeburg by the railway to See also:Aschersleben. Pop. (1905), 18,310. It is still surrounded in See also:part by the ruins of its See also:ancient walls, but, with the exception of the See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:John (15th See also:century), there are no buildings worthy of See also:special See also:notice: Although saline springs are mentioned here as See also:early as the 13th century, the first See also:attempt to See also:bore for salt was not made until 1839, while the systematic exploitation of the salt-beds, to which the town is indebted for its prosperity, See also:dates only from i856. The shafts reached deposits of salt at a See also:depth of 85o ft.; but the finer and purer layers See also:lie more than 'too ft. below the See also:surface. Besides the See also:rock-salt, which is excavated by See also:blasting; the saline deposits of Stassfurt yield a considerable quantity of deliquescent salts and other saline products, which have encouraged the See also:foundation of numerous chemical factories in the town and in the neighbouring See also:village of Leopoldshall, which lies in See also:Anhalt territory. The rock-salt See also:works are mainly See also:government See also:property, while the chemical factories are in private hands.
See Precht, Salzindustrie von Stassfurt and Umgebung (Stassfurt, 1891) ; and See also:Westphal, Geschichte See also:des koniglichen Salzwerks zu Stassfurt (See also:Berlin, 1901).
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