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Duderstadt
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, situated in a beautiful and fertile valley (formerly called Goldene Mark) watered by the Hahle, and on the railway Wulften-Leinefelde. Pop. (1905) 53 2 7 . It is an interesting medieval town with many ancient buildings. Notable are the two Roman Catholic churches, beautiful Gothic edifices of the -14th century, the Protestant church, and the handsome townhall. Its chief industries are woollen and cotton manufactures, sugar-refining and cigar-making; it has also a trade in singingbirds. Duderstadt was founded by Henry I. (the Fowler) in 9 2 9, passed later to the monastery of Quedlinburg, and then to Brunswick. It was a member of the Hanseatic League, and during the Thirty Years' War became a stronghold of the Imperialists. It was taken by Duke William of Weimar in 163 2; in 1761 its walls were dismantled, and, after being alternately Prussian and Hanoverian, it passed finally in 1866 with Hanover to Prussia.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Duderstadt'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/d/duderstadt.html. 1910.
