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Encyclopedia Britannica



MERSEBURG

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 174 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MERSEBURG , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, on the river Saale, Io m. by rail S. of
Halle
  and 15 m. W. of
Leipzig
 . Pop. (1905), 20,024. It consists of a quaint and irregularly built old town, a, new quarter, and two extensive suburbs, Altenburg and Neumarkt. The cathedral, which was restored in 1884-1886, has a choir, a crypt and two towers of the 11th, a transept of the 13th and a
late
 
Gothic
 
nave
  of the 16th century. Among its numerous monuments is one to Rudolph of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Henry IV. It contains
a
great
  organ dating from the 17th century. Near the cathedral is the
Gothic
  palace, formerly the residence of the bishops of Merseburg, and now used as public offices. The town
hall
  and the Standehaus, where the meetings of the provincial estates were held, are also noteworthy buildings. The industries include the manufacture of machinery,
paper
  and celluloid, and tanning and brewing.
Merseburg is one of the oldest towns in Germany. From 968 until the Reformation, it was the seat of a bishop, and in addition to being for a time the residence of the margraves of Meissen, it was a favourite residence of the German kings during the roth, i 1th and 12th centuries. Fifteen diets were held here during the middle ages, when its fairs enjoyed the importance which was afterwards transferred to those of
Leipzig
 . The town suffered severely during the Peasants' War and also during the Thirty Years' War. From 1657 to 1738 it was the residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg.
See E.
Hoffmann
 , IZistorische Nachrichten aus Alt-Merseburg (Mersburg, 1903).


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