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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOCHST

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 554 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOCHST , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau on the Main, 6 m. by
rail
  W. of
Frankfort
 -on-Main. Pop. (1905) 14,121. It is a busy industrial town with large dye-works and manufactures of machinery, snuff, tobacco, waxcloth, gelatine, furniture and biscuits. Brewing is carriedon and there is a considerable river
trade
 . The Roman Catholic
church
  of St Justinus is a fine basilica originally built in the gth
century
 ; it has been restored several times, and a
Gothic
  choir was added in the 15th
century
 . The town has also an Evangelical
church
  and a
synagogue
 , and a statue of Bismarck by Alois Mayer. Hochst belonged formerly to the electors of Mainz who had a palace here; this was destroyed in 1634 with the exception of one fine tower which still remains. In 1622 Christian, duke of
Brunswick
 , was defeated here by
Count
  Tilly, and in 1795 the Austrians gained a victory here over the French.
Hochst is also the name of a small town in Hesse. This has some manufactures, and was formerly the seat of a
Benedictine
  monastery.


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