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OELS , a town
Germany
capital of a mediatized principality of its own name. It lies in a sandy plain on the Oelsbach, 20 m. N.E. of Breslau by rail
property
Prussia , dating from 1558 and beautifully restored in 18911894, contains a good library and a collection of pictures. Of its three Evangelical churches, the Schlosskirche dates
century and the Propstkirche from the 14th. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in making shoes and growing vegetables for the Breslau market.Oels was founded about 940, and became a town
capital of an independent principality at the beginning of the 14th century . The principality, with an area of 700 sq. m. and about 130,000 inhabitants, passed through various hands and was inherited by the ducal family of Bruns-wick in 1792. Then on the extinction of this family in 1884 it lapsed to the crown of Prussia .See W. Hausler, Geschichte des Furstentums Ols bis zum Aussterben der piastischen Herzogslinie (Breslau, 1883) ; and Schulze, Die Succession im Furstentum Ols (Breslau, 1884). End of Article: OELS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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