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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOF

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 560 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOF , a town of Germany, in the Bavarian province of Upper
Franconia, beautifully situated on the Saale, on the north-
eastern spurs of the
Fichtelgebirge
 , 103 m. S.W. of
Leipzig
 
on the main line of railway to Regensburg and Munich. Pop. (1885) 22,257; (1905) 36,348. It has one Roman Catholic and three
Protestant
  churches (among the latter that of St Michael, which was restored in 1884), a town
hall
  of 1563, a gymnasium with an extensive library, a commercial school and a
hospital
 
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founded in 1262. It is the seat of various flourishing industries, notably woollen,
cotton
  and jute spinning, jute weaving, and the manufacture of
cotton
  and half-woollen fabrics. It has also dye-works, flour-mills, saw-mills, breweries, iron-works, and manufactures of machinery, iron and tin wares, chemicals and sugar. In the neighbourhood there are large
marble quarries and extensive iron mines. Hof, originally called Regnitzhof, was built about Io80. It was held for some time by the dukes of
Meran
 , and was sold in 1373 to the bur-
graves
  of Nuremberg. The cloth manufacture introduced into it in the 15th century, and the manufacture of veils begun in the 16th century, greatly promoted its prosperity, but it suffered severely in the Albertine and Hussite wars as well as in the Thirty Years' War. In 1792 it came into the possession of Prussia; in 18o6 it fell to France; and in 1810 it was incorporated with Bavaria. In 1823 the greater part of the town was destroyed by fire.
See Ernst, Geschichte and Beschreibung des Bezirks and der Stadt Hof (1866) ; Tillmann, Die Stadt Hof and ihre Umgebung (Hof, 1899), and C. Meyer, Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Hof (1894-1896).


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