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Encyclopedia Britannica



FURTH

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 367 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FURTH , a manufacturing town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, at the confluence of the Pegnitz with the Regnitz, 5 M. N.W. from Nuremberg by rail, at the junction of lines to Hof and Wiirzburg. Pop. (1885) 35,455; (1905) 60,638. It is a modern town in appearance, with broad streets and palatial business houses. Of its four Evangelical churches, the old St Michaeliskirche is a handsome structure; but its
chief
  edifices are the new town
hall
 , with a tower 175 it. high and the magnificent
synagogue
 . The Jews have also a high school, which enjoys a
great
  reputation. There are besides a classical, a
wood
 -carving and an agricultural school and a library. Furth is the seat of several important industries; particularly, the production of chromolithographs and picture-books, the manufacture of mirrors and mirror-frames, bronze and gold-leaf wares, pencils, toys, haberdashery, optical
instruments
 , silver
work
 , turnery, chicory, machinery, fancy boxes and cases, and an extensive trade is carried on in these goods as also in hops, metals, wool, groceries and coal. A large annual
fair
  is held at Michaelmas and lasts for eleven days. The earliest railway in Germany was that between Nuremberg and Furth (opened on the 7th of December 1835).
Furth was founded, according to tradition, by Charlemagne, who erected a chapel there. It was for a time a Vogtei (advocate-ship) under the burgraves of Nuremberg, but about 1314 it wasbequeathed to the see of
Bamberg
 , and in 18o6 it came into the possession of Bavaria. In 1632 Gustavus Adolphus besieged it in vain, and in 1634 it was pillaged and burnt by the Croats. It owes its rise to prosperity to the tolerance it meted out to the Jews, who found here an asylum from the oppression under which they suffered in Nuremberg.
See Fronmuller, Chronik der Stadi Fiirth (1887).


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