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NEISSE , a town and fortress of Germany, in the province of Prussian Silesia, at the junction of the Neisse and the Biela, 32 M. by rail S.W. of Oppeln. Pop. (1905) 25,394 (mostly Roman Catholics) including a garrison of about 5000. It consists of the town proper, on the right bank of the Neisse, and the Friedrichstadt on the left. The Roman Catholic parish church of St James (Jakobikirche) dates
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Neisse, one of the oldest towns in Silesia, is said to have been founded in the loth century, and afterwards became the capital of a principality of its own name, which was incorporated with the bishopric of Breslau about 1200. Its first walls were erected in 1350, and enabled it to repel an attack of the Hussites in 1424. It was thrice besieged during the Thirty Years' War. The end of the first Silesian War left Neisse in the hands of Frederick the Great
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The town was taken by the French in 1807. Neisse can, at the will of the garrison, be protected by a system of inundation. See Kastner, Urkundliche Geschichte der Stadt Neisse (Neisse and Breslau, 1854-1867, 3 vols.); Schutte, Beitrage zur Geschichte von Neisse (Neisse, 1881) ; and Ruffert, Aus Neisse's Vergangenheit (1903). End of Article: NEISSE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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