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Encyclopedia Britannica



STRIEGAU

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 1024 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STRIEGAU , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Striegau Water (Striegauer Wasser), 30 M. by rail S.W. of
Breslau
 . Pop. (1905), 13,427. It contains four Roman Catholic churches, among which is that of St Peter and St Paul, with a vaulted roof too ft. in height, the highest in Silesia; a
Protestant
 
church
  and numerous educational and charitable institutions. The
chief
 
industries
  of the place are the making of cigars, malt and machinery; also of albums, portfolios and other articles in
leather
 . Granite is quarried in the neighbourhood and there is an extensive
trade
  in
grain
 . It was near Striegau that Frederick the
Great
  gained the important victory usually named after the
village
  of Hohenfriedberg, on the 4th of June 1745. The town rights of Striegau date from 1242.


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