Brieg

Brieg, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the left bank of the Oder, 27 miles SE. of Breslau by rail. The principal building is the 13th-century church of St Nicholas, with a splendid organ, and with towers added in 1884–85. Brieg is a thriving town, its manufactures including machinery, ironwares, thread, fringe, sugar, leather, and tobacco. The battlefield of Mollwitz (q.v.) lies a little to the west. Pop. (1871) 15,367; (1891) 20,154.