Ar'olsen, the capital of the principality of Waldeck, on the Aar, 14 miles SSW. of Warburg. Its castle (1720) contains a library with valuable MSS., Pompeian antiquities, and West's 'Death of Wolfe.' The sculptor Rauch and the painter Kaulbach were natives. Pop. 2620.
Ar'olsen
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 445
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