Bible Encyclopedias
Perleberg

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Perkin Warbeck

Next Entry
Perlite

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on the Stepenitz, 6 m. N.E. from Wittenberge by the railway to Neustrelitz. Pop. (1905), 95 02. It contains a fine Gothic Evangelical church, a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue and several schools, and has a town-hall, dating from the 15th century, and a Roland column. Its chief manufactures are machinery, soap, blacking and clogs.

See Hopfner, Perleberger Reimchronik. Perleberg von 1200 bis 1700 (Perleberg, 1876).