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FREYBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREYBURG [FREYBURG AN DER UNSTRUTI, a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony, in an undulating See also:vine-clad See also:country on the Unstrut, 6 m. N. from Naumberg-on-the-See also:Saale, on the railway to See also:Artern. Pop. 3200. It has a See also:parish See also:church, a mixture of See also:Gothic and Romanesque See also:architecture, with a handsome See also:tower. It is, however, as being the " See also:Mecca " of the See also:German gymnastic See also:societies that Freyburg is best known. Here See also:Friedrich See also:Ludwig See also:Jahn (1778-1852), the See also:father of German gymnastic exercises, lies buried. Over his See also:grave is built the Turnhalle, with a statue of the " See also:master," while hard by it the Jahn Museum in Romanesque See also:style, erected in 1903. Freyburg produces sparkling See also:wine of See also:good quality and has some other small manufactures. On a See also:hill commanding the town is the See also:castle of Neuenburg, built originally in 1062 by See also:Louis the Leaper, See also:count in Thuringia, but in its See also:present See also:form mainly the See also:work of the See also:dukes of See also:Saxe-See also:Weissenfels.

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