Eschwege,

Eschwege, a town in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, on the Werra, 40 miles ESE. of Cassel by rail. It has manufactures of woollen, cotton, and linen fabrics, of machines, and of tobacco; also tanneries, and some trade in fruit and pork, and agricultural produce. Pop. 9892. The town was twice plundered and once burned during the Thirty Years' War.