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Encyclopedia Britannica



OFFENBURG

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 16 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OFFENBURG , a town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Baden, 27 M. by rail S.W. of Baden, on the river Kinzig. Pop. (1905) 15,434. It contains a statue of Sir Francis Drake, a mark of honour due to the fact that Drake is sometimes regarded as having introduced the
potato
  into Europe. The
chief
 
industries
  of the town are the making of
cotton
 , linen, hats, malt, machinery, tobacco and cigars and glass. Offenburg is first mentioned about I loo. In 1223 it became a town; in 1248 it passed to the
bishop
  of Strassburg; and in 1289 it became an imperial free city. Soon, however, this position was lost, but it was regained about the middle of the 16th
century
 , and Offenburg remained a free city until 1802, when it became
part
  of Baden. In 1632 it was taken by the Swedes, and in 1689 it was destroyed by the French.
See Walter, Kurzer Abriss der Geschichte der Reichsstadt Offenburg (Offenburg, 1896).


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