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FREYBURG

Volume 10 · 113 words · 1842 Edition

a bailiwick of the circle of the Treisam, in the grand duchy of Baden, comprehending one city and eighteen villages, with 1650 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is in the Black Forest, on the river Treisam. It contains 980 dwelling-houses and 10,450 inhabitants. It is the seat of a university with eighteen professors and betwixt 300 and 400 students, and of other well endowed institutions of education. It is a considerable manufacturing place for every kind of clothing, and of domestic articles and handicraft tools, as well as for musical and mathematical instruments, and many smaller articles. The cathedral is an object of great attention to the admirers of Gothic architecture.