Grossenhain, a busy town of Saxony, 21 miles by rail NNW. of Dresden. It has manufactures of cloth, buckskin, hosiery, nets, machinery, and cigars. Pop. (1875) 10,686; (1890) 11,938.
Grossenhain
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 430
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