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SCHWIEBUS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 394 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCHWIEBUS , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, situated in a fertile plain, 47 M. E. of Frankforton-Oder by the railway to Posen. Pop. (1905) 9321. It is still in
part
  surrounded by its medieval
wall
 , and has an old market-place, a castle and many old houses. Velvet,
cloth
 , machinery, bricks and candles are manufactured, and there are flour-mills, breweries, distilleries and lignite mines. The territory of Schwiebus originally belonged to the principality of
Glogau
 , and in the 16th and 17th centuries was a bone of contention between the electors of Brandenburg and the emperors. A compromise was arrived at in 1686, by which the elector received the lordship of Schwiebus on renouncing his claims to the principalities of
Liegnitz
 ,
Brieg
  and Wohlau. The electoral prince Frederick, afterwards the elector Frederick III., had, however, in a private compact pledged himself to restore Schwiebus to the emperor
Leopold
  I. when he became elector, and he did so in 1695, receiving 40,000 in exchange. By the peace of 1742, Frederick the
Great
  regained Schwiebus with the rest of Silesia, and it was incorporated with the department of
Glogau
 .


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