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Encyclopedia Britannica



DIRSCHAU

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 311 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DIRSCHAU , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of
Prussia
 , province of West
Prussia
 , on the left bank of the Vistula, 20 M. S. from Danzig and at the junction of the important lines of railway Berlin-
Konigsberg
  and Danzig-
Bromberg
 . Pop. (1905) 14,1$5. It has a Roman Catholic and a
Protestant
 
church
  and several schools. The river is here crossed by two fine iron bridges. The older structure dating from the year 1857, originally used for the railway, is now given up to road
traffic
 , and the railway carried by a new
bridge
  completed in 1891. Dirschau has railway
work
 -shops and manufactories of
sugar
 , agricultural implements and cement. During the war with Poland, Gustavus
Adolphus
  made it his headquarters for many months after its capture in 1626.


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