Guben

Guben, a manufacturing town and river-port of Prussia, in the province of Brandenburg, at the head of the navigable portion of the Neisse, 28 miles S. of Frankfort-on-the-Oder. The principal staples are hats and cloth. There are also wool spinning, tanning, machine factories, &c. The town was destroyed by the Hussites in 1434 and 1437, and was twice occupied by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War. Pop. (1875) 23,738; (1885) 27,086; (1890) 29,328.