Zell

Zell, or CELLE, a town of Prussia, on the navigable Aller, 28 miles by rail NE. of Hanover, with an active trade and considerable manufactures. From the 14th century it was the residence of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg of the Celle line until the extinction of that branch in 1705; and in the old castle (1485) George III.'s unfortunate sister, Caroline Matilda of Denmark, lived from 1772 to 1775, and here she is buried. For the unhappy Dorothea of Zell see the articles GEORGE I., KÖNIGSMARK. Pop. 19,950.