1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
|←Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume
24 |See also Schwarzburg-Sondershausen on Wikipedia, and our
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.| SCHWARZBURG-
SONDERSHAUSEN, a principality of Germany, and constituent state
of the German empire. It shares the old Schwarzburg lands with
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. In general it may be said that while
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt forms the southern, Schwarzburg-
Sondershausen occupies the northern portion of the lands once
divided between them. The total area of the principality is 333
sq. m., of which 133 are in the upper and 200 in the lower
barony. The chief towns are Arnstadt (pop. 16,275 in 1905) which
at one time gave name to a line of counts, in the southern, and
Sondershausen (7425), the capital, in the northern (or upper)
barony. The general description of the nature and resources of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt applies also to this principality, except
that 62% of the whole is devoted to agricult