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Encyclopedia Britannica



SCHWEDT

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 391 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCHWEDT , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on the left bank of the Oder, 13 M. N.E. from Angermunde by
rail
 . Pop. (1905) 9530. It is a pleasant, well-built town, with broad streets and shady avenues. There are three Evangelical churches, a Roman Catholic
church
 , a palace, built in 1580, and a gymnasium. The royal riding school was removed hence to Hanover in 1867. The
industries
  include the manufacture of tobacco, cigars, machinery, vinegar, soapand bricks, and there is a considerable
trade
  by water in agricultural produce.
Schwedt is mentioned in chronicles as early as 1138, and became a town in 1265. Towards the end of the 15th
century
  it passed to Brandenburg, and, in 1684, after a
great
  conflagration which laid it in ruins, was handsomely rebuilt by the electress Dorothea. The lordship of Schwedt was in the possession of the
counts
  of Hohenstein from 1481 to 1609, when it passed to Brandenburg. In 1689 it was given to Philip William, a younger son of the elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William, and he and his successors called themselves margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. When this line became
extinct
  in 1784 the lordship reverted to
Prussia
 , being claimed both by the king as personal property and by the state. The matter was not settled until 1872, when it was assigned to the state.
See Thoma,' Geschichte der Stadt and Herrschaft Schwedt (Berlin, 1873).


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