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HARZBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARZBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of See also:Brunswick, beautifully situated in a deep and well-wooded vale at the See also:north See also:foot of the Harz Mountains, at the See also:terminus of the Brunswick-Harzburg railway, 5 M. E.S.E. from See also:Goslar and 18 m. S. from See also:Wolfenbuttel. Pop. (1905), 4396. The Radau, a See also:mountain stream, descending from the See also:Brocken, See also:waters the valley and adds much to its picturesque See also:charm. The town is much frequented as a summer See also:residence. It possesses brine and carbonated springs, the Juliushall saline See also:baths being about a mile to the See also:south of the town, and a hydropathic See also:establishment. A mile and a See also:half south from the town lies the Burgberg, 1500 ft. above See also:sea-level, on whose See also:summit, according to tradition, was once an See also:altar to the See also:heathen idol Krodo, still to be seen in the See also:Ulrich See also:chapel at Goslar. There are on the summit of the See also:hill the remains of an old See also:castle, and a See also:monument erected in 1875 to See also:Prince See also:Bismarck, with an inscription taken from one of his speeches against the Ultramontane claims of See also:Rome—" Nach See also:Canossa gehen wir nichl." The castle on the Burgberg called the Harzburg is famous in See also:German See also:history. It was built between Io65 and Io69, but was laid in ruins by the See also:Saxons in 1074; again it was built and again destroyed during the struggle between the See also:emperor See also:Henry IV. and the Saxons. By See also:Frederick I. it was granted to Henry the See also:Lion, who caused it to be rebuilt about 1180.

It was a frequent residence of See also:

Otto IV., who died therein, and after being frequently besieged and taken, it passed to the See also:house of Brunswick. It ceased to be of importance as a fortress after the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and gradually See also:fell into ruins. See See also:Delius, Untersuchungen fiber See also:die Geschichte der Harzburg See also:Halberstadt, 1826) ; Dommes, Harzburg and See also:seine Umgebung Goslar, 1862) ; See also:Jacobs, Die Harzburg and ihre Geschichte (1885) ; and Stolle, Fuhrer von See also:Bad Harzburg (1899).

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