Hanau

Hanau, a Prussian town in Hesse-Nassau, at the junction of the Kinzig and the Main, 11 m. NE. of Frankfurt; is celebrated for its jewellery and gold and silver work, and is otherwise a busy manufacturing town; it is the birthplace of the brothers Grimm.

Population (circa 1900) given as 25,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)