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Pirna (pĭr`nä), city (1989 est. pop. 47,100), Saxony, E central Germany, on the Elbe River. Manufactures of this industrial city include rayon, paper, glass, furniture, and steel. Nearby are sandstone quarries. Known in 1233, Pirna passed to Bohemia in 1298 and to Meissen in the early 15th cent. The Saxonians surrendered (1756) there to Prussia in the Seven Years War. Noteworthy buildings include a 16th-century Gothic church, the city hall (begun 1555), and Sonnenstein castle (16th cent.).
Pirna a city in the Dresden District of the German Democratic Republic. Port on the Elbe River. Population, 50,000 (1972). An industrial center, Pirna manufactures gas turbines, electrical-engineering products, and synthetic silk and cord. Other products are pulp, steel castings, furniture, and glass. Sandstone is mined and processed near Pirna. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The journey is a poignant one, past the glum fortress towers of Pirna where the Third Reich pioneered the slaughter of the mentally handicapped ("we do it in the womb and so get away with it") and then along the melodramatic gorge of the Elbe, not unlike the Potomac as seen from Harpers Ferry. In his autobiography Johann Joachim Quantz still remembered his first encounter with Vivaldi's concerto in 1714 in Pirna forty years afterwards, while we find a similar recollection associated with a rather later stay in Dresden in the case of Frantisek Benda. We have to get the girls to come from Pirna,' says Schiller, referring to the nearest major town, 10 miles distant. |
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