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Nordhausen

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Nordhausen

Town in the Land (administrative region) of Thuringia, Germany, in the foothills of the southern Harz Mountains, 79 km/49 mi northwest of Erfurt; population (2005 est) 50,000. The area has potash mines, and there are engineering, textile, and oil-refining industries. Nordhausen was a free city of the Holy Roman Empire 1253–1803.

During World War II, a huge underground factory was built in a hillside near the town for the assembly of V1 flying bombs (see V1, V2); thousands of slave labourers died at this complex.



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, of which those of our readers who have had the good fortune to see a Gothic city entire, complete, homogeneous,--a few of which still remain, Nuremberg in Bavaria and Vittoria in Spain,--can readily form an idea; or even smaller specimens, provided that they are well preserved,--Vitré in Brittany, Nordhausen in Prussia.
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