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Encyclopedia Britannica



GREIZ

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 578 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GREIZ , a town of Germany,
capital
  of the -principality of Reuss-Greiz (Reuss the Elder), in a pleasant valley on the right bank of the White Elster, near the borders of Saxony, and 66 m. by rail S. from
Leipzig
 . Pop. (1875) 12,657; (1905) 23,114. It consists of two parts, the old town on the right bank and the new town on the left bank of the river; it is rapidly growing and is regularly laid out. The principal buildings are the palace of the prince of Reuss-Greiz, surrounded by a fine park, the old chateau on a rocky hill overlooking the town, the summer palace with a fine garden, the old town church dating from 1225 and possessing a beautiful tower, the town
hall
 , the govern-mental buildings and statues of the emperor William I. and of Bismarck. There are classical and modern schools and a school of textile industry. The industries are considerable, and include dyeing, tanning and the manufacture of woollen,
cotton
 , shawls, coverlets and
paper
 . Greiz (formerly Grewcz) is apparently a town of Slav origin. From the 12th century it was governed by advocati (V ogte), but in 1236 it came into the possession of Gera, and in 1S5o of the younger line of the
house
  of Plauen. It was wholly destroyed by fire in 1494, and almost totally in 1802.
See Wilke, Greiz and seine Umgebung (1875), and Jahresberichte des Vereins fiir Greizer Geschichte (1894, seq.)


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