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Jauer
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, 13 m. by rail S. of Leignitz, on the Wiithende Neisse. Pop. (1900), 13,024. St Martin's (Roman Catholic) church dates from 1267-1290, and the Evangelical church from 1655. A new town-hall was erected in 1895-1898. Jauer manufactures leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and gloves, and is specially famous for its sausages. The town was first mentioned in 1242, and was formerly the capital of a principality embracing about 1200 sq. m., now occupied by the circles of Jauer, Bunzlau, Ldweberg, Hirschberg and Schonau. From 1392 to 1741 it belonged to the kings of Bohemia, being taken from Maria Theresa by Frederick the Great. Jauer was formerly the prosperous seat of the Silesian linen trade, but the troubles of the Thirty Years' War, in the course of which it was burned down three times, permanently injured this.
See Schonaich, Die alte Fiirstentumshauptstadt Jauer (Jauer, 1903).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jauer'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jauer.html. 1910.
