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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Hitzacker
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover at the influx of the Jeetze into the Elbe, 33 m. N.E. of Luneburg by the railway to Wittenberge. Pop. (1905) 1106. It has an Evangelical church and an old castle and numerous medieval remains. There are chalybeate springs and a hydropathic establishment in the town. The famous library now in Wolfenbuttel was originally founded here by Augustus, duke of Brunswick (d. 1666) and was removed to its present habitation in 1643.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hitzacker'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​h/hitzacker.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hitzacker'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​h/hitzacker.html. 1910.