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GEKMAN empire: — KINGDOM OF SAXONY
The
growth of the
population is shown in
the following table : —
Year
Pojiulation
2,760,586 3,182,003
3,787,688
Density
per Sq.
Mile
Annual Increase per Cent.
1 Year
1900 1905 1910
Population
Deiisitj^
per Sq.
Mile
Annual Increa.se l>er Cent.
1875
1885 1895
471 543
654 5
1-99 1-41 1-63 ,
4,202,216 4,508,601 4,806,661
726-8 779-1 830-6
2-19 1-46 1-32
The conjugal condition of the population was as follows in 1910
Males
Females
Total
Children ....
784,656
790,512
1,575,168
Adults —
Unmarried
553,954
557,231
1,111,185
Married ....
916,325
914,939
1,831,174
Widowed
54,793
193,603
248,396
Divorced or separated
14,265
26,473
40,738
Saxony contains (1900) 47,009 Lusatian Wends, most of them in the district of Bautzen. In 1900 there were 161,534 foreigners (exclusive of Germans belonging to other German States).
The movement of the population is shown in the following table : —
Year
Marriages Total Births
Stillborn
4,759 4,599 4,374
Illegitimate
Total Deaths
Surplus
of Births
1909 1910 1911
38,541 I 141,480 38,907 134,699 41,236 ; 130,257
20,982 20,115 19,799
75,786 72,251 79,750
60,935 57,849 46,133
The population of the principal towns was, 1910 (including the munici- palities incorporated up to July 1, 1912) : —
Leipzig ,
. 589,850
Zittau .
. 37,084
Reichenbach .
. 29,685
Dresden
. 550,565
Freiberg
. 36,237
Criminitschau
. 28,818
Chemnitz
. 287.807 '■
Meissen
. 3o,8()5
Meerane .
. 25,470
Plauen .
. 121.272
Bautzen
. 32,754
Glauchau
. 25,155
Zwickau
. 73,542
Religion. — Although the royal family is Roman Catholic, the vast majority of the inhabitants of Saxony are Protestants. In 1910, Lutherans, 4,501,510 ; Roman Catholics, 233,872 ; Reformists, 16,531 ; other Christians, 30,548; Jews, 17,587 ; unclassified, 6,613. Of the Lutheran Church, the chief governing body is the * Landes-Consistorium ' or National Consistory at Dresden ; and it also has a representative Synod {Synode) with 35 clerical and 42 lay members (1901).
Instruction. — In 1911, there were 2,303 public Protestant and 56 Roman Catholic common schools, 58 private and chapter schools, and 1,948 advanced common schools (Fortbildungsschulen), or altogether 4,365, with a total attendance of 97] ,915. In addition there were 1 technical high school at Dres- den (winter term, 1911-12, 1,135 students), 1 mining academy at Fieiberg
