Radeberg - Encyclopedia

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RADEBERG, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, pleasantly situated in a fertile district on the Roder, Io m. N.E. of Dresden, by the railway to Gorlitz and Breslau. Pop. (1905) 13,301. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and an old castle. Its principal industries are the manufacture of glass, machinery, furniture and paper, and it produces a light Pilsener beer which is largely exported. Near the town are the Augustusbad and the Hermannsbad, two medicinal springs.