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ZITTAU , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Mandan, near its confluence with the See also:Neisse, See also:close to the Bohemian and Silesian frontier, 25 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Bautzen, 48 E.S.E. of See also:Dresden and at the junction of lines to See also:Reichenberg (in Bohemia), Eibau and See also:Hermsdorf. Pop. (1905) 34,706. The town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall See also:dates from. 1844, and contains a beautiful hall with See also:rich stained See also:glass windows. Among the six Evangelical churches, the following are noticeable: that of St See also:John, rebuilt in 1834 37, with twin See also:spires, and the 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:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and St See also:Paul, with its elegant See also:tower, which formerly belonged to an old Franciscan monastery. The latter was restored in 1882 and See also:part of it fitted up as an See also:historical
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museum. Another wing of this See also:building contains the municipal library of 40,000 volumes and valuable See also:manuscripts: Zittau is well equipped with See also:schools, including a. gymnasium and a commercial school, which are both accommodated in the Johanneum, and several technical institutions. There are also a See also:theatre, well-equipped public See also:baths and a richly endowed See also:hospital. Zittau is one of the See also:chief manufacturing towns of Saxony. The leading See also:branch of See also:industry is See also:linen and See also:damask See also:weaving; but woollen stuffs, trimmings, &c., are also produced in the factories of the town, and in the surrounding weaving villages, sixty-six of which, with 113,455 (1900) inhabitants, are included in the municipal See also:jurisdiction. The See also:corporation owns valuable forests on the mountains of Upper See also:Lusatia and other estates, the See also:annual income of which is about £15,000. There are various See also:steam-See also:mills, See also:iron-foundries, See also:brick-See also:fields and See also:potteries near the town, and extensive deposits of See also:lignite.
Zittau is of Wendish origin (Chytawa is its Wendish name), and was made a town by Ottocar II. of Bohemia. It was one of the six towns of the Lusatian See also:League (1346), at which See also:period it belonged to Bohemia. It suffered severely in the Hussite See also:wars and in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and was bombarded and burnt by the Austrians in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. The musical composer Marschner (1795–1861) was See also:born at Zittau.
See See also:Carpzov, Analecta fastorum Zittaviensium (See also:Leipzig, 17'6); Moschkau, Zittau and See also:seine Umgebung (5th ed., Zittau, 1893) ; and Lamprecht, Wegweiser durch Zittau and das Zittauer Gebirge (Zittau, 1901).
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