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Encyclopedia Britannica



LANDSBERG AM LECH

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 166 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LANDSBERG AM LECH , a town in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the river Lech, 38 m. by rail W. by S. of Munich. Pop. (1905) 6505. It has eight Roman Catholic churches, among them the Liebfrauen Kirche dating from 1498, several monasteries, and a fine medieval town-
hall
 , with frescoes by Karl von Piloty and a painting by Hubert von Herkomer. Here also are a fine gateway, the Bayer-Tor, an agricultural and other schools. Brewing, tanning and the manufacture of agricultural machinery are among the principal
industries
 .
See Schober, Landsberg am Lech and Umgebung (1902); and Zwerger, Geschzchte Landsbergs (1889).
LANDSBERG-AN-DER-WARTHE, a town in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, at the confluence of the Warthe and the Kladow, So m. N.E. of Berlin by rail. Pop. (1905) 36,934. It has important
engine
  and boiler works and iron-foundries; there are also manufactures of tobacco, cloth, carriages, wools, spirits, jute products and leather. An active trade is carried on in
wood
 , cattle and the produce of the surrounding country. Landsberg obtained civic privileges in 1257, and later was besieged by the Poles and then by the Hussites.
See R. Eckert, Geschichie von Landsberg-Warthe (189o).


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