FREIBURG

freiburg, a town of germany in prussian silesia, on the polsnitz, 35 m. s.w. of breslau, on the railway to halbstadt. pop. (1905) 9917. it has an evangelical and roman catholic church, and its industries include watch-making, linen-weaving and distilling. in the neighbourhood are the old and modern castles of the fuerstenstein family, whence the town is sometimes distinguished as freiburg unter dem fuerstenstein. at freiburg, on the 22nd of july 1762, the prussians defended themselves successfully against the superior forces of the austrians.