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Encyclopedia Britannica



VEXIO

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 16 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VEXIO , or WEx16, a town and
bishop
 's see of Sweden,
capital
  of the
district
  (tan) of Kronoberg, 124 M. N.E. of
Malmo
  by rail. Pop. (1900) 7365. It is pleasantly situated among low wooded hills at the north end of Lake Vexio, and near the
south
  end of Lake 1Ielga. Its
appearance
  is modern, for it was burnt in 1843. The
cathedral
  of St Siegfrid
dates
  from about 1300, but has been restored, the last time in 1898. The Smalar_d Museum has antiquarian and numismatic collections, a library and a bust of Linnaeus. There are iron foundries, a match factory, &c. At Ostrabo, the episcopal residence without the town, the poet Esaias Tegner died in 1846, and he is buried in the town cemetery. On the shore of Lake Helga is the royal estate of Kronoberg, and on an
island
  in the lake the ruins of a former castle of the same name.


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