Iserlohn

Iserlohn, a manufacturing town of Prussian Westphalia, is situated on a tributary of the Ruhr, 14 miles SE. of Dortmund. The industry is chiefly directed to the manufacture of hardware, especially of brass and bronze articles. The calamine mines are celebrated. In the neighbourhood is the Dechen stalactite cave, 292 yards long, discovered in 1868. Pop. (1875) 16,868; (1895) 24,722.