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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Schreiberhau

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See also Szklarska Poręba on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer. Now a town of Poland.

SCHREIBERHAU, a village and climatic health resort of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, situated in the valley of the Zacken in the Riesengebirge, 1900 ft. above the sea, 16 m. S.W. from Hirschberg by the railway to Grünthal. Pop. (1905) 4994. It has two Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, and works for the making and polishing of glass. It is a popular resort, being visited by about 10,000 visitors annually.

See Kloidt, Schreiberhau im Riesengebirge (Breslau, 1893).