Kronenberg
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Kronenberg is a German town six miles southwest of Elberfeld. During the early 20th century, it was a centre for industry, with many steel and iron works.
It is connected by railway to Elberfeld, and there is a significant Catholic minority in the town.
As of 1911, there were two Protestant churches, one Catholic church, an electric tramway connecting the city to Elberfeld along with the railway line, a new modern town hall.
The population of Kronenberg was approximately 12,000 in 1905.
Prussian era, this city was in the Rhine Province, 6 m. S.W. from Elberfeld, with which it is connected by railway and by an electric tramway line. Pop. (1905), 11,340. It is a scattered community, consisting of an agglomeration of seventy-three different hamlets. It has a Roman Catholic and two Protestant churches, a handsome modern town-hall and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria and considerable industries, consisting mainly of steel and iron manufactures.
- Compare Kronenbourg, a beer-producer based in the Alsace region of France.
- Kronenberg, see also Sevenum
- Kronenberg, Kronenberger, Cronenberg as Jewish family:
- Baron Leopold Kronenberg*, polish banker, see also Leopold Kronenberg Bank Foundation*([1] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=425&letter=K))
- Stanislas Kronenberg, Stanislaw Kronenberg*([2] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=426&letter=K))
- Romain Kronenberg, Bob Kronenberg etc..
- David Cronenberg
- Denise Cronenberg
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