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Encyclopedia Britannica



GELDERN

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 558 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GELDERN , a town of Germany, in Rhenish
Prussia
 , on the Niers, 28 m. N. W. of Dusseldorf, at the junction of railways to Wesel and Cologne. Pop. (19o5) 6551. It has an Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches and a town
hall
  with a fine council chamber. Its
industries
  include the manufacture of buttons, shoes, cigars and soap. The town
dates
  from about 11oo and was early an important fortified place; until 1371 it was the residence of the
counts
  and dukes of Gelderland. Having passed to Spain, its fortifications were strengthened by Philip II., but they were razed by Frederick the
Great
 , the town having been in the possession of
Prussia
  since 1703.
See Nettesheim, Geschichte der Stadt and des Amtes Geldern (Crefeld, 1863) ; Henrichs, Beitrage zur innern Geschichte der Stadt Geldern (Geldern, 1893) ; and Real, Chronik der Stadt and Umgegend von Geldern (Geldern, 1897).


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