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Encyclopedia Britannica



GERA

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 761 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GERA , a town of Germany,
capital
  of the principality of Reuss-Schleiz (called also Reuss younger line), situated in a valley on the banks of the White Elster, 45 M. S.S.W. of
Leipzig
  on the railway to Probstzella. Pop. (1885) 34,152; (1905) 47,455 It has been mostly rebuilt since a
great
  fire in 178o, and the streets are in general wide and straight, and contain many handsome houses. There are three Evangelical churches and one Roman Catholic. Among other noteworthy buildings are the handsome town-
hall
  (1576, afterwards restored) and the theatre (1902). Its educational establishments include a gymnasium, a commercial and a weaving school. The castle of Osterstein, the residence of the princes of Reuss,
dates
  from the 9th century, but has been almost entirely rebuilt in modern times. Gera is noted for its industrial activity. Its
industries
  include wool-weaving and spinning, dyeing, iron-founding, the manufacture of
cotton
  and silk goods, machinery, sewing machines and machine oil, leather and tobacco, and printing (books and maps) and flower gardening.
Gera (in ancient chronicles Geraha) was raised to the rank of a town in the 11th century, at which time it belonged to the
counts
  of Groitch. In the 12th century it came into the possession of the lords of Reuss. It was stormed and sacked by the Bohemians in 1450, was two-thirds burned down by the Swedes in 1639 during the Thirty Years' War, and suffered afterwards from
great
  conflagrations in 1686 and 1780, being in the latter year almost completely destroyed.


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