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WETZLAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 565 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WETZLAR , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, pleasantly situated at the confluence of the See also:Dill and See also:Lahn, 64 m. N.E. of See also:Coblenz by the railway to See also:Giessen. Pop. (1905) 12,276. The most conspicuous See also:building is the See also:cathedral, dating in See also:part from the 11th, in part from the 14th-16th centuries. The municipal archives contain interesting documents of the whilom imperial chamber (see infra). The town preserves associations of See also:Goethe, who wrote See also:Die See also:Leiden See also:des jungen Werthers after living here in 1772 as a legal See also:official, and of See also:Charlotte See also:Buff, the Lotte of Werther. Overlooking the town are the ruins of the See also:medieval See also:castle of Kalsmunt. There are See also:iron mines and foundries and See also:optical See also:instrument factories. Wetzlar was originally a royal See also:demesne, and in the 12th See also:century became a See also:free imperial town. It had grown in importance when, in 1693, the imperial chamber (Reichskammergericht) was removed hither from See also:Spires. The town lost its See also:independence in 1803, and passed to the See also:prince-See also:primate See also:Dalberg.

Three years later (18o6), on the See also:

dissolution of the See also:empire, the imperial chamber ceased to exist. The See also:French were defeated here by the Austrians and See also:Saxons under the See also:archduke See also:Charles, 15th See also:June 1796.

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