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TEPLITZ (Czech, Teplice)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEPLITZ (See also:Czech, Teplice) , or TEPLITZ-SCHONAU, as it is officially called since the See also:incorporation of the See also:village of Schonau in 1895, a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 8o m. N.N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 24,420. It is picturesquely situated in the See also:plain of the Biela, which separates the See also:Erzgebirge from the Bohemian Mittelgebirge, and is a favourite watering-See also:place, containing a large Kurhaus and numerous handsome See also:bath-houses. The environs are laid out in See also:pretty and shady gardens and promenades, the finest being in the See also:park which surrounds the See also:chateau of See also:Prince Clary-Aldringen, built in 1751. The other See also:chief buildings are the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Schlosskirche, built in 1568 and altered to its See also:present See also:form in 1790, the See also:Protestant See also:church, the Jewish See also:synagogue with a conspicuous See also:dome, and the See also:theatre. In the See also:garden of the chateau are two See also:ancient towers, probably the remains of the See also:Benedictine See also:con-vent, but ascribed by See also:local tradition to the See also:knight Kolostuj, ,the legendary discoverer of the springs. The saline-alkaline springs of Teplitz, ten to twelve in number, ranging in temperature from 90° to 117° Fahr., are classed among what are called " indifferent " See also:waters. Used almost exclusively for bathing, they are prescribed for See also:gout, See also:rheumatism, and some scrofulous affections, and their reputed efficacy in alleviating the effects of See also:gun-shot wounds had gained for Teplitz the See also:sobriquet of " the warriors' bath." Military See also:baths are maintained in the town by the governments of Austria, See also:Prussia and See also:Saxony, and there are also bath-houses for the poor. Teplitz is much visited for the after-cure, after See also:Carlsbad and similar spas. The number of patients is about 6000 and the passing visitors about 25,000.

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bed of See also:lignite in the neighbourhood has encouraged the See also:industrial development of Teplitz, which carries on manufactures of machinery and See also:metal goods, See also:cotton and woollen goods, chemicals, hardware, See also:sugar, See also:dyeing and See also:calico-See also:printing. The thermal springs are fabled to have been discovered as See also:early as 762, but the first See also:authentic mention of the baths occurs in the 16th See also:century. The town is mentioned in the 12th century, when See also:Judith, See also:queen of See also:Ladislaus I. of Bohemia, founded here a See also:convent for Benedictine nuns, which was destroyed in the Hussite See also:wars. In the 17th century Teplitz belonged to the Kinskys, and after Kinsky's See also:murder (25th See also:February 1634) the lordship was granted by See also:Ferdinand II. to Johann See also:Count Aldringen. His See also:sister See also:Anna. who inherited it, married Freiherr Hieronymus von Clary, who assumed the additional name and arms of Aldringen. The See also:family, which was raised to the See also:rank of count in 1666 and of prince of the See also:Empire in 1767, still retains the See also:property. Teplitz figures in the See also:history of See also:Wallenstein, and is also interesting as the spot where the monarchs of Austria, See also:Russia and Prussia first signed the triple See also:alliance against See also:Napoleon in 1813. It is a curious fact that on the See also:day of the See also:earthquake at See also:Lisbon (1st See also:November 1775) the See also:main See also:spring at Teplitz ceased to flow for some minutes.

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