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Encyclopedia Britannica



ZERBST

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 975 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZERBST , a town of Germany, in the duchy of Anhalt, situated on the Nuthe, II m. N.W. of Dessau and 27 M. S.E. of Magdeburg by the railway Dessau-
Leipzig
 . Pop. (1900) 17,095. It is still surrounded in part by old walls and bastions, while other portions of the whilom fortifications have been converted into pleasarit promenades. It contains five churches, one of which (St Nicholas), built in 1446-88, is a good example of the
late
  Gothic style as developed in Saxony, with its spacious proportions, groined vaulting, and bare simple pillars. The town
hall
 
dates
  from about 148o, but it was disfigured by additions in the beginning of the 17th century. It contains the municipal museum, among the
chief
  treasures of which is a Luther Bible illustrated by Lucas Cranach the younger. The palace (16811750) has been used as a depository of archives since 1872. There are several quaint old houses, with high gables, in the market-place, in the middle of which stand a Roland column, of about 1445, and a bronze figure known as the Butterjungfer (butter-girl), of uncertain origin and meaning, but now regarded as the
palladium
  of the town. The old Franciscan monastery, with fine cloisters, founded in 1250, contains the gymnasium; a Cistercian nunnery of 1214 has been converted into barracks; and the Augustinian monastery of 1390 has been a
hospital
 
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since 1525. Gold and silver articles, silk, plush, cloth, leather, soap,
starch
 , chemicals and carriages are among the
chief
  manufactures. Iron-founding is carried on; and several breweries are engaged in the preparation of Zerbster bitter beer, which enjoys considerable repute.
Zerbst is an ancient town, mentioned in 949. In 1307 it came into the possession of the Anhalt family, and from 1603 till 1793 was the
capital
  of the collateral branch of Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1/93 it passed to Anhalt-Dessau.


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