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NEUSTADT-AN-DER-HAARDT

Volume 16 · 93 words · 1860 Edition

a town of Bavaria, circle of Palatinate, on the Spirebach, 14 miles W. of Spires, and 16 E.S.E. of Kaiserslautern. The principal church is a building of the tenth century, and contains monuments of many of the electors and counts palatine. There are also to be seen here the remains of an old castle, to which the town probably owed its origin. Neustadt has a court of law, a school, and an hospital. Its manufactures are cloth, paper, chemical substances, gunpowder, &c. Some trade is carried on in wine and timber. Pop. 6088.