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Holzminden

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, on the right bank of. the Weser, at the foot of the Sollinger Mountains, at the junction of the railways Scherfede-Holzminden and Soest-Bdrssum, 56 m. S.W. of Brunswick. Pop. (1905) 993 8. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a gymnasium, an architectural school and a school of engineering. The prosperity of the town depends chiefly on agriculture and the manufacture of iron and steel wares, and of chemicals, but weaving and the making of pottery are also carried on, and there are baryta mills and polishing-mills for sandstone. By means of the Weser it carries on a lively trade. Holzminden obtained municipal rights from Count Otto of Eberstein in 1245, and in 1410 it came into the possession of Brunswick.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Holzminden'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​h/holzminden.html. 1910.
 
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