Quedlinburg, an old town of Prussian Saxony, on the river Bode, at the foot of the Harz Mountains, 32 m. SW. of Magdeburg, founded by Henry the Fowler, and where his remains lie; was long a favourite residence of the emperors of the Saxon line; it has large nurseries, an extensive trade in flower seeds, and sundry manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 19,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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