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Zittau, Saxony

mersiowsky - 9-27-2014 at 07:57 AM

Zitttau - Nona.net


Zittau- Wikipedia


From Meyer's Orts:
Zittau, district government capital (263 or 244 m. above sea level), 1876 hectares (4,635,596 Acres), on the mouth of the Mandau river and the Neisse; Saxony, county office and district court is in Bautzen; 37084 (30823 Lutherans, 5667 Catholics, and 157 Jews) residents in 1910. Institute of Business: post office, telegraph, telephone, train station with telegraph (Zittau train station) Goerlitz-Nikrisch(-Seidenberg)-Zittau Line, Bischofswerda-Zittau Line, Eibau-Warnsdorf (Boehmen)-Scheibe-Zittau-Reichenberg (Boehmen) Line, Loebau-Oberodewitz-Zittau Line; train station with passenger service (Zittau-Schiesshaus: reciprocal cart load service) and train station (Zittau-Vorstadt): Zittau-Bertsdorf-Oybin, Zittau-Bertsdorf-Jonsdorf; electric streetcar line (three lines). The governing body: government district office, lower district court with chamber for business matters and criminal court, military district office, civil registration office, main customs office, border customs office (train station), district tax collector, land office, office of weights and measures, office of measures, office of streets, office of water works, fire service, office of business and trade, district school inspector, medical board, chamber of commerce, arbitration court, business guild,… . Churches, Committee of public safety and welfare; 7 Lutheran, 1 Catholic, and 1 Apostolic church, Synagogues, schools, museums, theaters, hospitals, sanitariums, clinics, crematoriums, electric, gas and water works, banks, markets, manufacturing companies and all business and trades associated with a major European city.