shops of every quarter of the globe, and are commonly called Dutch toys. There are several manufactories of papier maché, to make dolls' heads, and of pipe-heads; and one or two mills for grinding boys' marbles. Hones for sharpening knives are prepared here out of a species of slate; and there is also a quarry producing slate-pencils in the neighbourhood. Altogether the trade in toys is supposed to produce 400,000 fl. yearly. Here is a pretty modern Gothic Church built from Heideloff's designs; the vaulted roof is of wood. 2 Neustadt.-Inn, Halbe Mond. ROUTE 94 a. WEIMAR TO CARLSBAD BY JENA, Posting, 1st day to Altenburg, 68 Eng. m. in 11 h.; 2nd day to Carlsbad, 763 Eng. m., in 131 h. This is a good post-road through beautiful and richly cultivated country, and may afford a variation of the journey to those acquainted with the usual route by Leipzig. The first part of the road traverses some singularly bare-looking ravines, one of which leads down into the broad valley in which stands 1 Jena (Inn, Sonne), a dull, dingy, antiquated town, in a hollow surrounded by naked hills, having nothing worth notice but its University, founded 1550, and numbering at present about 500 students. "Groups of them, in falling collars not particularly clean, and flowing hair not remarkably glossy, may be seen swaggering about with foils, masks, and cudgels." L. R. G.The University Museum is valuable to students. The Garden of the Observatory was Schiller's favourite resort while Professor of History, between 1789 and 1799, and he composed in it some of his poems. "The road, somewhat narrow and very serpentine, but not bad, takes its course among clear streams and happy-looking villages, and afterwards" through forests of pine, to 3 Kloster Launitz, a clean village inn. There is a new and better road from Jena to 3 Eisenberg. 2 Gera (Inn, Reussischer Hof, very good), a picturesque, clean, and thriving modern town, of 11,000 Inhab., on the Elster, belonging to the sovereign princes of Reuss-Schleitz and Ebersdorf. The Castle of the Prince of R. Ebersdorf, backed by hanging woods, rises over against the town, and adds much to its picturesque appearance. Roneberg, a small modern town and watering-place, is passed, and the road traverses a country not particularly interesting, abounding in mines. 1 Schmöllen. Smelting-house. 2 Altenburg.—Inn, Stadt Gotha; good. (See p. 471.) A railroad runs hence to Leipzig, and to Zwickau (Rte. 91). Beyond this the road enters the Erzgebirge. 3 SCHNEEBERG (Rte. 91a). 3 Wildenthal (Inn, Post), a neat village at the foot of the Auersberg, where a good deal of lace is made and sold. The Bohemian (Austrian) Customhouse and Passport-office (§ 86) is at Hirschenstand. After following for a long way a wooded gorge, you at length emerge from the hills a little beyond 2 Neudeck (Inn, Städtischer Gasthof). Here you find yourself in the undulating valley of the Eger. 2 Carlsbad (Inn, Prinz von Preussen), in HANDBOOK SOUTH GERMANY. There is a road from Altenburg to Dresden by Rochlitz, 3. Waldheim, 2. Nossen, 3. Wilsdruff, 23. Dresden, 23. Or by way of Freiberg to Penig, 21. Chemnitz, 3; and thence as in Rte. 90. ROUTE 94 b. 15 Germ m. = 69 Eng. m. A new road, but not furnished with post-horses, connects Erfurt with Schleusingen on the road from Gotha to Coburg. The road is very pretty from Erfurt to 2 Arnstadt.-Inns: Die Henne; Der Greif. 5300 Inhab. The Liebfrauenkirche, a specimen of German architecture of the 12th and 13th cent., displays peculiar sculpture on its exterior, and some interesting monuments within. The Schloss, formerly the residence of the Schwarzburg family, descended, on the failure of that line, to the Sondershausen family. Of the old Schloss there only remains a tower, and some walls of 1554. [A new road (43 Germ. m. in length) has been opened between Arnstadt and Rudolstadt through a beautiful country.] After leaving Arnstadt the road runs through a narrow valley amidst beechwood, and then rises, passing among fields, to 2 Ilmenau (Inn, Lowe). This town of 2700 Inhab. belongs to Weimar. Here are mines of manganese and iron. Near it is Elgersburg, romantically situated, and an establishment for the cold-water cure. The road after leaving Ilmenau ascends for 2 m. to a height of 2500 ft., and then descends with many windings through a forest belonging to the King of Prussia to 4 Schleusingen (Inn, Grüner Baum, 3000 Inhab.), a town formerly belonging to the Counts of Henneberg, now to Prussia. The old castle of Bertholdsburg, prettily situated on a hill, has been repaired by the King of Prussia. In a chapel built 1723, adjoining the Stadtkirche, are the tombs of the old Counts of Henneberg; and in the neighbourhood a suppressed Præmonstrant Abbey, an interesting monument of German architecture of the 12th cent. 13 Hildburghausen. 13 Rodach. 24 COBURG. Rte. 92. NASSAU - SECTION VIII. FRANKFURT. BAVARIA. BADEN. - AND THE RHINE FROM ROUTE PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.-54. Money.—55. Posting. Nassau. PAGE 95. The Brunnen of Descent of the Lahn from Weilburg to Limburg and Ems 501 97. The Taunus Mountains Wiesbaden to Frankfurt by ROUTE RHENISH MAYENCE PAGE 520 520 WAY 523 503 98. Bingen to Mayence by In 107. To Strasburg, from the Baden gelheim 506 Railway 99. RAILWAY. Offenburg to Schaffhausen and Frankfurt 506 100a. Saarbrück to Treves 100. Vale of the Nahe-Bingen to Kreuznach and Saarbrück 101. Mayence to Metz 102. The Rhine (E.), Mayence to Worms, Mannheim, Spires, and Strasburg.-RAIL. Constance by the Kinzig 551 507 109. Freiburg to Schaffhausen 510 by the Höllenthal 555 510 110. Heidelberg to Würzburg by 511 § 54. MONEY. In Nassau, Baden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, &c., accounts are kept in Florins or Gulden. 1 Florin (= 1s. 8d.), contains 60 kreutzers. 3 kr. = 1d. The States of Southern and Western Germany, including Bavaria, Würtemberg, Baden, Hesse, and Frankfurt, have recently combined to issue a uniform coinage. (See § 32.) Florin Florin Florin New Silver Coinage, Vereins Thaler 3 florins 30 kr. 2 Prussian dollars. = Formerly the florin was an imaginary coin, and did not exist as a piece of money. The name zwanziger properly applies to Austria alone, where this coin goes for 20 kreutzers, and bears upon it the figure 20, the zwanziger or zehner passes for 10, and the for 5 kreutzers; while in Bavaria and Würtemberg the same coins pass respectively for 24, 12, and 6 kr. Value of foreign coins in florins and kreutzers : Brabant dollars (originally struck by the Emperor of Austria in the Low Countries) are a very common coin, current without loss throughout S. Germany. The table (A) at the beginning of this volume for reducing them into florins and kreutzers may be found useful. The postmaster in Mayence is authorised to charge 52 kr. for each horse per post. The charges for horses vary from time to time with the price of forage. The charge for barriers ceases on entering this duchy. The usual rate of travelling is a post in 1 to 1 h. when the road is not very hilly. The distances to all the adjoining post stations are hung up in front of every posthouse. [N. G.] Y Travellers usually pay the postilion 1 fl. for 2 horses per post, which is quite enough. On some roads 1 fl. 12 kr. (3 zwanzigers) is given, which is high pay. N.B. An extra charge of 30 kr. per post is made by the postmaster when a postboy, driving only 2 horses, is obliged to ride, and cannot sit on the box of the carriage. A light open carriage, holding 4 without heavy baggage, may be drawn by 2 horses a heavy trunk counts as one person. A postchaise or calèche costs from 50 kr. to 1 fl. a post. The Wagenmeister, when entitled to be paid separately, usually receives 12 kr., and 12 more when he greases the wheels. Charges at Inns:-Rooms on 1st floor, 1 fl. to 1 fl. 12 kr.; 2nd or 3rd floor, 36 kr.; table-d'hôte, 48 kr. to 1 fl. 12 kr.; bottle of wine, 18 kr.; breakfast (coffee or tea, with bread and butter), 20 kr. ROUTE 95. ROUTES. THE BATHS AND BRUNNEN OF NASSAU, = 14 Germ. m. 64 Eng. m. Schnellpost, as far as Wiesbaden (whence a railroad runs to Frankfurt), every day, in 8 hrs. To Ems, omnibus 4 or 5 times a-day in the season. The new road from Coblenz to Ems avoids the high hills, laboriously surmounted by the old road, and follows the rt. bank of the Rhine, passing orchards and vineyards, to NiederLahnstein (p. 275), at the mouth of the Lahn, and thence up its rt. bank through the village of Nievern, Ahl, and the iron-works of Hohenrain. The distance is nearly 12 m., a most agreeable drive of 2 hrs. through varied and beautiful scenery. There is a footpath over the hills by Arxheim and Fachbach, a walk of 2 hrs. -difficult to find without a guide. 2 EMS. Inns and lodging-houses: The Alte Kurhaus, a huge rambling château, formerly the residence of the Duke, consisting of several compartments, called the oberer and unterer Flügelbau, the Mittelbau, and the Lahnbau, contains nearly 300 chambers, which are let, according to their size and situation, at from 48 kr. to The 8 fl. a day. A good room may be had new |