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BRAUNAU (Czech Broumov)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 437 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRAUNAU (Czech Broumov) , a town of Bohemia, Austria, 139 M. E.N.E. of Prague by rail. Pop. (1900) 7622, chiefly German. The town is built on a rocky
eminence
  on the right bank of the Steine. It has an imposing
Benedictine
  abbey, once a castle, but converted into a religious
house
  in 1322, when Ottakar I. gave the
district
  to the Benedictines. Noteworthy also is the
great
  church of Saints Wenceslaus and Adalbert, built between 1683 and 1733. This stands on the site where, in 1618, the Protestants attempted to build a church, the forcible prevention of which by Abbot Wolfgang Solander was the immediate cause of the protest of the Bohemian estates and the " defenestration " of the ministers Martinic and Slavata, which opened the Thirty Years' War. After the battle of the White Hill, near Prague (162o), the town was deprived of all its privileges, which were, however, in
great
  part restored nine years later. It is now a manufacturing centre (cloth, woollen and
cotton
  stuffs, &c.) and has a considerable
trade
 .


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