1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Neusalz

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NEUSALZ, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Oder, 20 m. by rail N.W. of Glogau. Pop. (1905) 13,002. It has three Evangelical churches, one of which belongs to the Herrnhut brotherhood, a Roman Catholic church and an orphanage. Its largest industry is, perhaps, the manufacture of thread; there are also in the town ironworks, breweries, shipbuilding yards and electrical works. Neusalz became a town in 1743.

See Bronisch, Geschichte von Neusalz an der Oder (Neusalz, 1893).