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HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 575 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the slopes of the Erzgebirge, and on the railway Reichenbach-Chemnitz, 12 M. N.E. of Zwickau. Pop. (1905) 13,903. Hohenstein possesses two fine Evangelical churches, a town
hall
 , restored in 1876, and several monuments to famous men. The principal
industries
  are the spinning and weaving of
cotton
 , the manufacture of machines, stockings, gloves and woollen and silk fabrics,
cotton
  printing and dyeing. Many of the inhabitants are also employed in the neighbouring copper and arsenic mines. Not far from Hohenstein there is a
mineral
 
spring
 , connected with which there are various kinds of baths. Hohenstein is the birthplace of the physicist G. H. von Schubert and of C. G. Schroter (1699-1782), one of the inventors of the pianoforte. Hohenstein consists of two towns, Hohenstein and Ernstthal, which were united in 1898.
Another place of the same name is a town in
East
  Prussia. Pop. (1900) 2467. This Hohenstein, which was founded by the Teutonic Order in 1359 , has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, a
synagogue
  and several educational establishments.


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