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Encyclopedia Britannica



GUMBINNEN

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 716 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUMBINNEN , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
East
  Prussia, on the Pissa, an affluent of the Pregel, 22 M. by rail S.W. of Eydtkuhnen on the line to Konigsberg. Pop. (1905), 14,194. The surrounding country is pleasant and fruitful, and the town has spacious and regular streets shaded by linden trees. It has a Roman Catholic and three Evangelical churches, a
synagogue
 , a gymnasium, two public schools, a public library, a
hospital
 
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and an infirmary. In the market square there is a statue of the king of Prussia Frederick William I., who in 1724 raised Gumbinnen to the rank of a town, and'in 1732 brought to it a number of persons who had been driven from Salzburg by religious persecution. On the
bridge
  over the Pissa a
monument
  has been erected to the soldiers from the neighbourhood who fell in the Franco-German war of 1870-71. Iron
founding
  and the manufacture of machinery, wool,
cotton
 , and linen weaving, stocking-making, tanning, brewing and distilling are the principal
industries
 . There are horse and cattle markets, and some trade in corn and linseed.
See J. Schneider, Aus Gumbinnens Vergangenheit (Gumbinnen, 1904).


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