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WEISSENFELS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEISSENFELS , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Saxony, situated on the See also:Saale 20 m. S.W. of See also:Leipzig and 19 M. S. of See also:Halle by the See also:main See also:line to Bebra and See also:Frankfort-on-Main. Pop. (1905) 30,894. It contains three churches, a spacious See also:market-See also:place and various educational and benevolent institutions. The former See also:palace, called the Augustusburg, built in 1664-1690, lies on an See also:eminence near the town; this spacious edifice is now used as a military school. Weissenfels manufactures machinery, ironware, See also:paper and other goods, and has an See also:electrical See also:power-See also:house. In the neighbourhood are large deposits of See also:sandstone and See also:lignite. Weissenfels is a place of considerable antiquity, and from 1656 till 1746 it was the See also:capital of the small duchy of See also:Saxe-Weissenfels, a See also:branch of the electoral house of Saxony, founded by See also:Augustus, second son of the elector See also:John See also:George I. The See also:body of Gustavus See also:Adolphus was embalmed at Weissenfels after the See also:battle of Liitzen. See See also:Sturm, Chronik der Stadt Weissenfels (Weissenfels, 1846); and See also:Gerhardt, Geschichte der Stadt Weissenfels (Weissenfels, 1907).

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