¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
to G rlifenberg, where people re sort to undergo the water-cure, [The post-road runs front Hohenstadt, by If Schönberg, 2| Altstadt, to 3-1 F reiwaldau (Inti : Silberne Krone). Distance to Freiwaldau 7| Germ, tn.,—34| Eng. in, ©räfenberg lies a short distance to the U. of the small town of Frciwaldau, in the N. part of the Austrian portion of the duchy of Silesia, which is now Included in the province of Moravia. Vincent Priessnitz, the Arch-water- doctor, has established a sort of colony here, consisting now
. (Inns Schwarzer Adler ; Schwan ; Goliath ; Krone), one of the strongest fortresses in the Austrian dominions, situated on the March, or Marawa ; it has 12,300 Inhab. It was taken by the Swedes in the Thirty Years’ War* hut Frederick the Great besieged it in vain, in 1758, for seven weeks, and was then com pelled to retreat by Loudon, who cut off his magazines. Lafayette was con fined a prisoner within it in 1794. By the aid of a fellow-prisoner, named Boliman, he managed to escape over the walls
