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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 524 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WERNIGERODE , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:province of Prussian See also:Saxony, 13 M. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Halberstadt, picturesquely situated on the Holzemme, on the See also:north slopes of the Harz Mountains. Pop. (1905) 13,137. It contains several interesting See also:Gothic buildings, including a See also:fine town See also:hall with a See also:timber See also:facade of 1498. Some of the See also:quaint old houses which have escaped the numerous fires that have visited the town are elaborately adorned with See also:wood-See also:carving. The gymnasium, occupying a See also:modern Gothic See also:building, is the successor of an See also:ancient See also:grammar-school, which existed until 1825. See also:Brandy, cigars and dye-stuffs are among the manufactures of the See also:place. Above the town rises the See also:chateau of the See also:prince of See also:Stolberg-Wernigerode. A See also:pavilion in the See also:park contains the library of 117,000 volumes, the See also:chief feature in which is the collection of over 3000 Bibles and over 5000 volumes of hymnology. Wernigerode is the chief town of the See also:county (Grafschaft) of Stolberg-Wernigerode, which has an extent of 107 sq. m., and includes the See also:Brocken within its limits. The See also:counts of Wernigerode, who can be traced back to the See also:early 12th See also:century, were successively vassals of the margraves of See also:Brandenburg (1268), and the archbishops of See also:Magdeburg (1381). On the extinction of the See also:family in 1429 the county See also:fell to the counts of Stolberg, who founded the Stolberg-Wernigerode See also:branch in 1645.

The latter surrendered its military and fiscal See also:

independence to See also:Prussia in 1714, but retained some of its See also:sovereign rights till 1876. The counts were raised to princely See also:rank in 1890. See Forstemann, See also:Die Graflich-Stolbergische Bibliothek in Wernigerode (See also:Nordhausen, 1866), and G. See also:Sommer, Die Grafschaft Wernigerode (See also:Halle, 1883).

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