Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Frankfort-on-the-Oder

FRANKFORT---, in Frankfurt-an-der-, a of  at the head of a  in the n  of, about 50 s in an easterly direction from. The proper, which has far outgrown the limits of its ancient, lies on the left of , but it is connected by a en  900  long with the  of Damm. Among the more important s are the  of ’s (the Oberkirche), a handsome   of the, the  , the ish , the , dating from , and bearing on its southern  the sign of the , the  , three , an  , a , a , the Frederick , and the provincial. The of Frankfort, which was founded in  by the  of, , was removed to  in , and the   are now occupied by the Realschule. As the chief of a, Frankfort is the seat of a  of , a general commission, and a number of  boards. Its is mainly devoted to the  of -wares,, ,  and , , , and s. Being situated on the  from  to , commanding an extensive system of   by means of the  and its s to the  and the , and in modern times having become an important  junction, it maintains no small  activity, which is further fostered and concentrated by its three  s held respectively at Reminiscere or the second  in , at Margaret’s , and at. The, which in was 29,969, had at the  of  attained to 47,176. The existence of Frankfort goes back to, when it was  by  s introduced by  and  of , who had recently conquered the district from the. The principal facts in its external are—the  which it successfully sustained against the   in the time of the  ; the   in, on account of its quarrel with the  of ; the  of the  in , of the  in , and of the  of  in ; and its capture by  in , and by the  in. The presence of the on this occasion cost the  300,000 s, and in the  the continual  of  created great destitution, compelling the s to procure a  of 208,000. died in the in , from the effects of a  received in the  at the neighbouring  of ; a  was erected over his  in the “” in. was in the  in, and  in.

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