Wetzlar

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 621

Wetzlar, a small town of Rhenish Prussia, charmingly situated on the Lahn, 40 miles by rail N. of Frankfurt-on-the-Main; pop. 7844. Part of its old cathedral dates from the 13th century. Wetzlar is the scene of the Sorrows of Werther.

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