Deggendorf, a town of Lower Bavaria, on the Danube, which is here crossed by two bridges, 39 miles NW. of Passau by rail, with manufactures of paper, linen, woollens, stoneware, and matches. Its church of the Holy Sepulchre is often visited by more than 30,000 pilgrims annually. Pop. 6446.
Deggendorf
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 734
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