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LISSA (Polish Lezno)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 776 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LISSA (Polish Lezno) , a town in the Prussian province of Posen, 25 M. N.E. from
Glogau
  by rail and at the junction of lines to Breslau, Posen and Landsberg. Pop. (1905) 16,021. The
chief
  buildings are the handsome palace, the medieval town-
hall
 , the four churches and the
synagogue
 . Its manufactures consistchiefly of shoes, machinery, liqueurs and tobacco; it also possesses a large steam flour-mill, and carries on a brisk trade in grain and cattle.
Lissa owes its rise to a number of Moravian Brothers who were banished from Bohemia by the emperor Ferdinand I. in the 16th century and found a
refuge
  in a
village
  on the estate of the Polish family of Leszczynski. Their
settlement
  received municipal rights in 1561. During the Thirty Years' War the population was reinforced by other refugees, and Lissa became an important commercial town and the
chief
  seat of the Moravian Brothers in Poland. Johann Amos Comenius was long
rector
  of the celebrated Moravian school here. In 1656 and 1707 Lissa was burned down.
See Voigt, Aus Lissas erster BlStezeit (Lissa, 1905), and Sanden, Geschichte der Lissaer Schule (Lissa, 1905).


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