1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Beuthen (Niederbeuthen)

17328661911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 — Beuthen (Niederbeuthen)

BEUTHEN, or Niederbeuthen, a town of Germany, in the north of Prussian Silesia, on the Oder, the capital of the mediatized principality of Carolath-Beuthen. Pop. (1900) 3164. The chief industries of the place are straw-plaiting, boat-building, and the manufacture of pottery; and a considerable traffic is carried on by means of the river.