Hirschberg, a manufacturing town of Prussian Silesia, is romantically situated at the influx of the Zacken to the Bober, 1116 feet above sea-level, and 78 miles WSW. of Breslau by rail. It is the centre of the extensive textile, lace, paper, and other manufactures of the district. Pop. (1875) 12,970; (1885) 15,622; (1890) 16,124.
Hirschberg
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 723
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