JAUER, a town in the Prussian province of Silesia, 13 m. south of Liegnitz, on the Wiithende Neisse. Pop. (1933) 12,628. The town was first mentioned in 1242, and was formerly the capi tal of a principality embracing about 1,200 square miles. From 1392 to 1741 it belonged to the kings of Bohemia, being taken from Maria Theresa by Frederick the Great. Jauer was formerly
the prosperous seat of the Silesian linen trade, but three burnings in the Thirty Years' War permanently injured it. St. Martin's church dates from 1267-90, and the Evangelical church from 1655. Jauer manufactures leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and agricultural machinery.