de l'Europe, all well situated on the principal street; H. Bellevue, facing the Kurhaus gardens, rather shut in with trees; H. du Parc (new 1883, with lift), facing the park. 2nd class Hotels: H. Windsor; Adler, well managed; H. d'Angleterre; Eisenbahn H., close to Rly. Table d'hôte at some 1.30, but at most 6 P.M. English is spoken in all the hotels. Up to 1st July and during September, pension at very moderate rate can be arranged.

Lodgings may be found in most parts of the town. The best are on the Promenade, on Ferdinandstrasse and on Kisseleffstrasse. The rent of good lodgings in a good situation ranges from 60 to 140 mks. per week for 3 or 4 rooms; for large apartments 180 to 200 mks. are charged, and from 10 to 14 mks. for a single bedroom. During August, which is the busiest month, prices are considerably higher. In the principal lodging houses English is spoken, and also in all the leading shops. Carriages. One horse from the Rly. Stat. to any part of the town (including the Springs, time not more than hr.) 1 or 2 persons 60 pf.; 3 or 4 persons 90 pf.; each trunk 20 pf., hand-bags and hat-boxes free. By time 1 or 2 persons 2 m. 20 pf. an hour; 3 to 4 persons 2 m. 70 pf. an hour. A tariff showing fares and places in the neighbourhood is placed in cach carriage.

25 m.

Tax levied on visitors who stay more than 5 days: 1 person 12 m.; 2 persons 20 m.; 3 persons, if of one family, In return for this payment the visitor has free use of the waters and of the extensive parks and pleasure grounds, of the suite of rooms in the Kurhaus, including a well supplied reading-room, admission to the concerts and re-unions, and the privilege of listening to a musical performance by the band 3 times a day.

Music.-During summer the instrumental band plays at the Elizabethanbrunnen 7 to 8 A.M.; in the Kurhaus gardens 3 to 4 P.M., and also from 7 to 9 P.M.

Homburg vor der Höh, one of the most popular mineral-water resorts in

Germany, and one of those most fre quented by English-speaking people, is a town of 8336 Inhab. (1880), of whom 6194 are Protestant, 1710 Roman Catholic, 432 Jews. It is prettily situated on a breezy rising ground (600 ft.), having on two sides wooded, picturesque hills, and on the other sides an open undulating country. It consists of a principal street about of a mile long, extending in a gentle incline from the Rly. Stat., to which the Promenade runs parallel, while various streets cross at right angles. The Promenade is finely shaded by an avenue of elms, and is lined with handsome villas. The lofty detached tower (188 ft.) of the Palace or Schloss is a remnant of a much earlier building. Over an inner gateway there projects the front half of an equestrian figure of Prince Frede rick of Hessen-Homburg, who by a bold charge decided the victory of Fehrbellin (1675) over the Swedes for the Great Elector of Brandenburg. The garden and park attached to the Schloss contain some fine cedars, a small lake, and pleasant shady walks, open to the public. The interior is shown when it is not occupied. The older part of the town is near the Schloss on the slope to the N.W. A number of the houses in this part appear to be from 200 and 300 years old. In a small square, abutting on the principal street, is a column surmounted by an eagle, erected to the memory of natives of the town who fell in the Franco-Prussian War.

The Kurhaus, erected in 1843 and largely extended in 1852, is one of the most splendid in Germany. It is separated by a small garden from the principal street, and in the rear there is a fine terrace and well laid out pleasure grounds. The building contains richly decorated halls for assemblies and concerts, conversation-room, elegant dining-room (table d'hôte at 1.30 and 6 much frequented); also Reading-rooms, one where English and American papers and periodicals are taken, the other for newspapers in Continental languages. One of the wings comprises a handsome large Theatre, in which performances of opera take place in summer; also the Saalburg Museum of Roman

antiquities, and an extensive series of baths. The Kurhaus is the chief rendezvous of visitors, and during the musical performances in the evening there is quite a gathering of beauty and fashion.

The Park, situated on the S.E. side of the town, and bounded on one side by the Promenade, is about of a mile long, and nearly 4 m. broad. It is well laid out with shady paths and flower beds, and has many fine trees and shrubs of various kinds. Here rise the five mineral springs, all within a short distance of one another. All the springs are tastefully enclosed and decorated, each being of a different design. The waters are supplied by girls, and are drunk at the sources in the open air. The band plays from 7 to 8 A.M. near the Elizabethan spring, and at that hour the Brunnen Allée, near that spring, is the great resort of visitors. For promenading in rainy weather there is a covered ambulatory, an orangery, and a conservatory.

On the slopes of the wooded hills adjoining the Park are many pleasant shady walks and drives. From the upper end of the town there is a long avenue of fine Lombardy poplars leading to the woods that extend for some miles towards the Taunus. The number of shady walks and drives around Homburg are an immense advantage in hot weather.

The Homburg Waters are very salutary in chronic diseases of the stomach and diseases of the bowels, liver, and spleen, habitual constipation, hæmorrhoids, chronic diarrhoea; in jaundice, gout, and plethora; excessive corpulency, anæmia; and in various nervous affections. There are 5 springs: the Elizabeth-, Kaiser-, and Ludwigbrunnen, ferro-saline springs, have resolvent effects analogous to those of Kissingen and Marienbad. The Elizabethbrunnen is the most extensively used; the water is purgative. The chlorids of this spring are more abundant than those of the Racoczy brunnen at Kissingen, the latter resembling closely to the Kaiserbrunnen at Hom

burg. The Ludwig brunnen, though less energetic, is still highly efficacious when its use is steadily continued, and acts more on the kidneys.

The Louisen and Stahlbrunnen are excellent tonics; the quantity of the carbonate of iron in the Louisenbrunnen is about the same as those of the Schwalbach Weinbrunnen, the Stahlbrunnen being one of the strongest ferruginous waters of Germany. Both contain with the carbonate of iron muriate of soda, which corrects their astringency. They are successfully used in cases of chlorosis, scrofula, diseases of the urogenital organs, &c., &c.

Homburg has two Bathing Esta blishments with all kinds of baths including Mineral, Pine, and Mud Baths, highly recommended for rheu matism and gout.

The season extends from 10th Mayt 1st October, and the usual course of water drinking is 21 days. The average number of visitors during the year 1882-84 was above 11,000, and these above 4000 were English speak ing. During August, Homburg is apt be crowded. Wihout medical advice, one should use the waters for any length of time. The temperature of Homburg is usually 4 degrees lower than that of Frankfort.

Physicians.-Dr. Beetz, Dr. Weber Dr. Hoeber, and other German phy cians resident here, speak English.

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Churches.-The English church, tasteful structure, Early English style in Ferdinandstrasse. Service on Sun days by a resident clergyman 11 AM. and 4 P.M. Scotch Presbyterian vice during the months of July and August at the Lutheran Church in the Schloss at 11.30 A.M. and 7.30 P.M. The Roman Catholic church is in Do rotheenstrasse, and was formerly the French Reformed church. The Syna gogue is a prominent building in the higher part of the town.

Letters should be addressed Hombu v. d. H., or else Homburg, near Frank fort, to prevent them from being carried to another Homburg, or even to Hamburg.

Excursions:

(a) 5 m. N. is the Saalburg; ruins

raised against incursions of the Germans by Drusus and strengthened by Germanicus. It is reached by a long straight road, which commands a good view over Rhineland. Though extending over several acres, the ruins are reduced to the foundations of walls, and are surrounded by a double fosse. Within, the foundations of the Pratorium, 163 ft. by 140 ft., are laid bare. The antiquities here discovered have been placed in a wing of the Cursaal.

(b) The salt-works of Nauheim (see Rte. 70), with the interesting boiling fountain, N.E. from Homburg (Schnellpost 10 m. in 2 hrs. daily).

(c) Usingen, 10 m. to the N., is a pretty drive; Schnellpost twice daily in 24 hrs., and thence N. to Weilburg Stat. (See Rte. 96.)

(d) Bonames Stat., on the Rly. from Frankfurt to Giessen (Rte. 70), is 5 m. S.E.

Rly. from Homburg to Frankfurt, S. 12 m., 11 trains daily in 40 min. through

2 m. Ober- Ursel Stat. (Inn: Schützenhof), see above.

4 m. Weisskirchen Stat. In the neighbouring Stierstadt numerous Roman vestiges have been found.

8 m. Rödelheim Junct. Stat. on the Nidda. (Branch Rly. to N.W. 6 m. Kronberg. See above.)

The line crosses the Nidda, and turning E. joins the Taunus Rly. to

12 m. Frankfurt. See Rte. 95.

ROUTE 97A.

FRANKFURT TO LIMBURG.-RAIL.

47 m.; 4 trains daily in 24 hrs.

Starting from the Ost-Bahnhof, and calling 15 min. later at the Fahrthor Stat., the train leaves on the r. the line for Homburg, and reaches

9 m. Höchst Junct. Stat. (Rte. 95). Rly. N. to Soden (Rte. 97), S.W. to Mainz.

14 m. Hofheim Stat., a village with a hydropathic establishment (Rte. 97). Ascending the pretty valley, the train reaches

19 m. Eppstein Stat. (Rte. 97), and passes through a tunnel to

23 m. Niedernhausen Junct. Stat., for Wiesbaden.

28 m. Idstein Stat. (Inn: Lamm), a town of 2600 Inhab.

37 m. Niederselters Stat. (Rtc. 97), and thence to

47 m. Limburg-on-the-Lahn Stat., described in Rte. 96.

ROUTE 98.

BINGEN TO FRANKFURT-ON-THE-MAIN, BY INGELHEIM AND MAYENCE.-RAIL.

Distance, 42 m.; time, 14 to 24 hrs.; 10 trains daily.

Bingen is described in Rte. 38.

There are 2 rlys. from Bingen to Mayence; one along the rt. bank of the Rhine, the most interesting, described in Rtes. 38 and 95; and the other following on the 1. bank.

On quitting Bingen Stat. it skirts the base of the Rochusberg, but soon diverges from the borders of the river and proceeds E. to

7 m. Ingelheim Stat. (Inns: Lamm in the upper, Hirsch in the lower village, both nearly a mile from the stat.). A busy village with plaster and paper mills, about 1 m. from the bank of the Rhine. Charlemagne loved to dwell here, and built himself (768 to

Oranienhof, Englischer Hof, Rheinstein, Kauzenberg, Holländischer Hof).

This thriving town of 15,500 Inhab., belonging since 1815 to Prussia, in a picturesque situation, has risen into great repute as a watering-place since 1840, on account of its mineral waters, which contain iodine, and especially bromine, in larger proportions than any other known, and are singularly efficacious for female complaints, and in cases of scrofula. The number of visitors already exceeds 6000 annually. The springs rise in and near an island in the Nahe, close to the bridge. Here stands the Kurhaus, or assembly and reading-rooms, around which invalids collect morning and evening, to drink the water of the Elisen Brunnen, under the shade of acacias and poplars.

Here are also Brine Baths, the brine (Mutterlauge) being used sometimes with the mineral water combined.

The ruined choir of the picturesque Church, near the bridge (date 1332), was fitted up (1857) for the English Service.

A good view of Kreuznach may be had from the pleasure-ground on the top of the Schlossberg, rising on the 1. bank of the Nahe, and crowned by the ruined castle of Kauzenberg, which belonged to the Counts of Sponheim from the 13th to the 15th cent., after wards to the Electors Palatine, and blown up by the French in 1689. In 1632 Kreuznach was taken by assault by Gustavus Adolphus. A party of English volunteers serving under him was most instrumental in its capture. The attack was led by Lord Craven, the champion of the Queen of Bohemia; and not only he, but every English officer présent, was wounded on this occasion.

top), and (hr.) Ebernburg, all three points of view described below.

(2) To the (3 hrs.) Ruins of Montfort, (2 hrs.) Rothenfels (finest view of all, see below), (1 hr.) Altenbrumberg.

(3) To the Abbey of (3 hrs.) Disibodenberg.

(4) To Dhaun (see below). To the Alzenstha and the Donnersberg (see Rte. 101).

The Rly.on quitting Kreuznach Stat. crosses the Nahe, passing in sight of

The Salinen, or Salt-works, of Theodorshall, 1 m. above Kreuznach; and on the rt. bank those of Karlshall (Inn: H. Rees), belonging to the Grand Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt. They consist of a collection of very long sheds, filled with faggots, through which the salt water is made to trickle, after being raised by pumps, in order to evaporate it, and convert it into saturated brine, fit for the boiling-house. The springs naturally contain but 1 per cent. of saline particles, which require to be raised to 18 per cent. to convert it into saturated brine. From Theodorshall it is about 1 hr. to the top of the Rothenfels, a porphyry ridge embracing a grand panorama.

13 m. Münster-am-Stein Junct. Stat. (Kurhaus, good; H. Baum; Löw), is another extensive salt-work belonging to Prussia, and a growing place, with bathing establishment, and warm saltspring, built on a flat, nearly encircled by the Nahe, at the foot of the magnificent precipice of red porphyry, 420 ft. high, which is crowned by the *Castle of Rheingrafenstein, an ancient stronghold of the Rheingraves, destroyed by the French in 1689. It is literally perched, like an eagle's nest, on a pinnacle of the rock, and is accessible from the salt-works by a ferry and a very steep footpath, but more easily by descending upon it from the hill above. The modern Schloss and farm-house have been built by the Prince of SolmsBraunfels. From a neighbouring and still higher peak, 1070 ft. above the Nahe, called the *Gans, the best view over the Nahe is obtained. [Branch Rly. S. 31 m, through Ebernberg and