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Encyclopedia Britannica



WEILBURG

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 495 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEILBURG , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, picturesquely situated on the
Lahn
 , just above the confluence of the Weil, 50 M. N.E. from Coblenz by the
rail
 -way to Giessen. Pop. (1905) 3828. The old town, built on and around a rocky hill almost encircled by the river, contains a castle of the 16th
century
 , formerly the residence of the dukes of Nassau-Weilburg, and later of the grand-dukes of Luxemburg. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic
church
 ; the former, the Stadtkirche, containing the burial vaults of the princes of Nassau, a gymnasium and an agricultural college. Its
industries
  include wool-spinning,
mining
 , tanning and dyeing. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the castles of Merenberg and Freienfels. Weilburg was in the 1th
century
  the property of the bishops of Worms, from whom it passed to the
house
  of Nassau. From 1355 to 1816 it was the residence of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of this
house
 .
See C. C. Spielmann, Rarer durch Weilburg and Unagebung (Weilburg, 1894) ; and Geschichte der Stadt and Herrschaft Weilburg (Weilburg, 1896).


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