Lüdenscheid, a town of Westphalia, 19 miles ESE. from Elberfeld-Barmen, is the seat of numerous hardware manufactures, such as metal buttons, buckles, teaspoons and teapots, mountings for umbrellas and sticks, and musical instruments, besides iron-foundries and machine-shops. Pop. (1875) 8555; (1885) 15,067.
Lüdenscheid
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 740
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