Meiderich
MEIDERICH, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, 2^ m. by rail N.E. of Ruhrort, whose river harbour is in great part within its confines. Pop. (1905), 40,822. Iron and steel works, coal-mines, saw-mills, brickworks, and machineshops furnish the principal occupations of the inhabitants. Meiderich, which is first mentioned in 874, was united with Duisburg in 1905.
See Graeber, Tausendjdhrige Geschichte von Meiderich (1893).
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