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distanno being probably twenty-five English miles from tbe Finstermünz Pass. It was my original Intention to bave stopped for tbe night at Landeck j but finding that tbe public conveyanees on tbe following day were not suitable as to time, I yielded to the temptation of a stellwagen about to start for tbe onward journey to Feldkirch, and loft tbe place in about half an hour after I reacbed it. By tbis arrangement, I was enabled to accomplish wbat I bad most at beart, tbat is, to pass througli

tbe scenery by day and not by night ; although I thereby sacrificed the few Sigbts tbat Landeck bas to show. But, indeed, tbe great Sigbts of Landeck, as of so many otber places in tbe Tyrol, are not wbat is within its walls, but wbat surrounds them ; and tbese I was enabled to see and to enjoy, as well as if I bad delayed my journey anotber day. Landeck is situai.cd on tbe banks of tbe Inn, at tbe point whereit is joined by tbe Sanna, and wbereit takes a sudden turn from its previous course

of tbe eminences overhauging it, namely, the Schloss Landeck, and tbe ancient fortress of Schroffensiein, Landeck bas an elevati on of 2643 feet above tbe sea- levcl, being lower than Finstermünz by abont 450 feet, and higher than Innsbruck by about 850. My propose being now to leave tbe Tyrol, and to

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history we must make acquaintance furtber on, baci a bouse bere wkicb still contains some eurious mural paintings. Landeck 1 is an important thriving little town, witli tbe Inn flowing tbrongh its midst. It bas two fine remains of ancient castles : Schloss Landeck, now used partly as a hospice ; and Schloss Sehr ofenstein, of difficult accese, barinted by a knight, wbo gave too ready ear to tbe ealumnies of a rejected suitor of bis wife, and must wand er round its precincts wringing

bis fettered bands and crying ‘ Woe ! ’ On tbe slope of tbe bill crowned by Schloss Landeck Stands tbe parish cburch. Its first foundation dates from tbe fifteenth Century, when a Landecker named Henry and bis wife Eva, having lost tbeir two cliildren in a forest, on vow- ing a ebnreb in bononr of tbe Blessed Virgin, met a bear and a wolf each carrying one of tbe cliildren teli ci erly on its back. It bas a double-bnlbed tower of mueb later date, and it was restored witb considerable care a few years back

; but many important parta re maki in eben original condition, including some early sculpture. In tbe churchyard are two important monu menta, one dating from tbe fifteenth Century, of Oswald Y, Sehrofenstein ; tbe otber, a little gorbie chapel, con- secrated on August 22, 1870, in memory of tbe Lan- 1 The story of its eurious success age in st the Bavarians in 17 03, P* 287-8, From Landeck there is a fine read (the description of which helouga to Snitt-Tirol), over the Finstermünz and Stelvio

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Views in the Tyrol

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Author: Allom, Thomas ; Tombleson, William ; Isser, Johanna ¬von¬ ; Hormayr, Joseph ¬von¬ / from drawings by T. Allom, after original sketches by Johanna v. Isser, geb. Grossrubatscher, with letterpress descriptions, by a companion of Hofer

Publisher: Tomleson

peasantry of Appenzel, who, advancing to Imst, dispersed the nobles, who were United under thè name of “ thè Elephant League,” and bore the braggart inscription on their banner, “ May a hundred thousand devils tabe us, if we do not kill these naked peasants with our swords and again place a lord over them. The distriets of Pfunds, Laudeck, and Landeck, were rendered memorable in the French-Bavarian national wars of 1703 and 1809. By thè bridge of Pontlatz, near Prutz, (which, by some authors

, is thought to be the Pons latius, as Nauders is the Oenotrium of Ptolemy,) in the vicinity of Ladis, near Zoll, by Fliess, and the castle of Pideneck at Landeck, and through thè country extending- even to Imst, was waged war and persecution during the above sanguinary years. It was at Landeck, that Duke Frederick, in disguise, recited in verse, the miseries and misfortunes he had undergone ; and which he so pathetically and forcibly described, that thè voice of the assembled crowd simulta- neously

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1832

Travelling Sketches : in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine.- (Heath's picturesque annual ; 1832)

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Author: Leitch, Ritchie / Leitch Ritchie

Publisher: Longman [u.a.]

Physical description: IV, 256 S. : Ill.

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SISTERS OF MERCY. 247 convent of the Sisters of Mercy. This establish ment is endowed with large estates, although the number of nuns is limited to twelve. These ladies, agreeably to the rules of the founder, Vincenz de Paula, take the vows for only one year. In the house there is a hospital for females, and in the village a school, which the nuns attend every day. From Imst to Landeck, the next place, the post is three German miles, instead of two, the ordinary distance. Landeck is a village

snugly niched in a corner of the valley. The mountains rise around it in wild confusion, and a torrent foams by its side, crossed by a wooden bridge. An antique castle, built upon a rock, looks down upon the houses. Here the Inn and we separate. The river turns abruptly to the left, and we pursue our course towards the Arlberg. From Landeck the posts are Fliersch, Xasserein, Stuben, and Dalaas. We then arrive at Bludenz, entitled to a remark as a substantial and comfort able little town. The name

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a Frendi officer. Tliey reachcd Landeck in sufety, luit all armnul tliern the stnrdy Tirolese werc determinine llidr dost met ion. Martin Sterzroger, Pfleger or .lodge, of Landeck, smnraoned the Landsturm of the neigh- hrmring districts, and arranged the plan of Operation:.. The i*nemy were snffered to advanne rm their way un ii indered along thè stcep patii, wliere the rocky sides of the Inn dose in and form the torrihle gorge which is traversed hy the Pontlatzerbriickc ; hui when they ar- rived

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

CHAPTEU XIII. THE STELVIO AND' FINSTERMÜNZ PASSES—LANDECK, In procecding to tlic Stelvio, we kept the Landeck TO ad, imtil we rcacbed the village of Spondinig, whence, tuming at right an gl es to the left, we crossed the broad and watery valley of the Etsch, partly on a dyke of masonry, raised to control the immdations, and partly on bridges. On leaving the plain, we entered immediately into the ravine which leads np to the Stelvio Pass, and soon arrived at the small town of Prad, sitnated

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CHAPTER XIV. THE ARLBERG PASS THE VORARLBERG FELDKIRCH BREGENZ, St. Anton is a mere hamlet, used as a post-station for thè Biligences ; but its post-house affords tolerable accommodation for thè night. It is two posts distant from Landeck, that is, abont tour German or twenty Engl i sh miles. It is situated at thè foot of thè Arlberg, properly so called ; althongli, as already observed, we may reasonably considor our route all the way from Lau deck as a part of thè ascent of this mountain. The

elevation of St. Anton ahove the sea is 4314 feet, being about 1670 feet higher than Landeck. September 7th .—We proceeded on our journey at thè usuai hour of live, climbing the Arlberg by a steep but excellent road. Even at St. Anton, we eould see that a great change had taken place in the charac ter of the scenery and Vegetation sirice we last looked upon them by dayliglit, everything indicating that we had loft behind ns the softer climate and ri eher leafage of the valleys, and were now entered upon

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opportunity of ascertaining the movements of his friends, and the machinations of his enemies ; and in reward for their faithful Services, an especial grant was made in favoi of their descendants. The duke encouraged by the popular feeling evinced towards him, hazarded at intervals indirect appeals to the love and affection of his subjects. At length, disguised like a pilgrim, accompariied by his friend Müllinen, he ventured to proceed to Landeck, to attend thè assembly of representatives, and

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by fire, was, like the adjacent country extending to Reitti, in an active and flourishing condition, thus renderei by the industry of the two enterprising merchants named Strele ; from hence the road proceeds to Landeck, in the Rhoetian Engadein, and Tyrolian Vintschgau ; the other brauch tending eastward, direct to Inspruck, through Miemingen and Telfs. In the environs of Miemingen, is pleasantly situated the castle of Fruendsheim, sur- rounded with a mote, once the property of the heroic family

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by Maximilian to his friend Veit, of Wolkenstein, and formed in 1809, together with Passeyer, Landeck , Schlanders, Meran, Mays, and Algund, one of the “ starlike points” of the Tyrolian insurrection. Where the river Gader unites its impetuous waters with those of the Rienz, Stands the ancient nunnery and abbey of Sonnenburg, or Suana-Burc, a castle, an expiatum f or'peuce, which was founded by the ancestors of the Meinhards of Görz, and richly endowed by Henry the Holy, the last of thè Saxon emperors, and

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, 126 Kranach.’s Lucas, Ma donna, 18®, 192, 257, 279-81, legend, 281 note. Kranebitten, 314 Kreidenfeuer. 287 Kreuz-kapelle, 325 Kropfsberg, 79 Kufstein, 53 et seq., 286, 288 Kugelmoos, 260 Kümmerniss, St, 429- 31 Knndl, 64,78,92, 110-2 L ABYBIRB, legend : of, 5' LAG Lagerthal. See Val La- garina Lago di Garda, 341,400 Lafraun, 391 Lähn, 34 Lakes, 25, 33, 34, 119- 20,126,127, 132, 206, 220, 325, 386, 391, 397, 401, 402 Lampsenjock, the, 140 Landeck, 31-2, 48, 239- 40, 287-8 Landmark, legend

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joined thc stellwagen at five, to proceed on my jonrney towards Landeck. Our course was now almost directly north, instead of being almost directly west, as it liad been from Meran to tbe ravine of the Stelvio, It took ns about five honrs to reacb thc top of the E eschen-Scheideck, the low ridge which constitutes the watershed between the valleys of the Inn and the Etsch, and which lies abont a conpie of miles to the east of the small town of Nanders. The road tracks the eourse of the Etsch thè

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Owimg to its low and slieltered yet hilly position, and its beautiful vicinity, Meran is much freqnented by invalida, for tbe grape-cure, the whey-cure, thè water- cure, &c. It is well provided witli accommodation for sudi guests, both in tbe town and neighbourhood. . September 4 th .—I left Meran in tbe stellwagen bound for Landeck, at balf-past nine in tbe morning. Our course was still along tbe valley of tbe Etsch, at first on tbe right bank, afterwards on the left bank of tbe river. Por

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of green and wooded bilie, which constitute an inner circle of beauty, over and beyond which thè mountain peaks rise up grandly pictnrescpic. It is in thè centro of this double circle that thè town of Meran has its site, a site which, in point of beauty, may well compare with thè finest in thè Tyrol, with those of Innsbruck, Botzen, and Landeck. It is a small bnt neat town, containing about 2800 inhabitants. It lies only 881 feet above thè sea, being an elevation of 138 feet above Botzesu It lies near

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on of a great fair at Landeck, always crowded by people from all tbe country round, be appeared in tbe character of principal actor in a peasant-comedy, wbicb set forth tbe suffer in gs of a prince diiven from bis throne by cruel enemies, wandering homeless among bis people, tben calling tbem to arms, and leading tbem to victory. Tbe excitement of tbe people at tbe representation exceeded bis bigbest expectations. Loud sobs and cries aecompanied bis description of tbe Trince’s woes; but wben he carne

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deck contingent of the Tirolean sharpshooters, who assisted in defending the borders of Wälsch-Tirol in 1866. 1 About t.wo or three miles from Landeck there is a- celebrateci wat ertali, at a spot called Letz. Inast was formerly celebrateci for its breecl of canary- birds, which its townsmen used to carry all over Eu rope. The church contains a votive tablet, put up by some of them on occasion of being saved from ship- wreek in thè Mediterraneam It has a good old inn, once a knightly palace

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........... 12 Prom Eeldkirch to Innsbruck—The Pass of Erastanz ; Shepherd lad’s heroism; thè traitor’s fate—S. Jodor and the Deyil—Bludenz— Montafon ; who gave it its arrns—Prazalanz—The Tear-rill J Kirschwasser—Dalaas—Silberthal—Das Br uederhüsle—Engineering of the Arlberg pass—Stanzerthal—Ilospice of St. Christof—Mies burg—1 sch gl ; its e skullery ’—Landeck—Legend of Schrofenstein Sharpshooter’s raonument—Auf dem Fern—Nassereit—Tsehirgants Brandi road to Rüssen—Planseo—Lechthal—Imst—Pitzthal G rowth

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to Feldkirch (which I knew to he a post-station) as a base of operatione, for leisurely threading our mountain way through Bludenz and Landeck and the intervening valleys to Innsbruck. How our plan was thwarted 1 I will relate presentiy. I still recommend this line of route to others less en- cumbered with luggage, as leading through out-of-the- 1 The usuai fate of relying on Eoad-books, Ours, I forget- whether Arntbors or Trautwem’s, said there was regulär communieation between Oberriet and Feldkirch

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burning to defend tbeir country. Down carne t.lielr shots* like hail, each ball piércing ita 'man ; those who baci no arma clashecl clown stones upon thè foe. Only a handfhl escaped, bnt at Landeck theae wer© taken prisoners ; and there waa not one even to carrv the newa to Maximilian. This faraous success is still cele brateci every year on the Ist of July hy a solermi procession. Maximilian and Vendome remained perplcxed at hearing nothing from each othcr, anci without means of commimicatinn

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Physical description: [1] Bl., 128 S., [1] gef. Bl, [42] Bl. : 42 Ill., 1 Kt.

Location mark: II A-5.020

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, into the gloomy vale of Nassereit ; whence it divides into two branches, one conducting the traveller southwards to the castle of the ancient family of Starkenberg, and from thence to Imst, a place which previous to its destruction by fire, was, like the adjacent country extending to Reitti, in an active and flourishing condition, thus rendered by the in dustry of the two enterprising merchants named Strele; from hence the road proceeds to Landeck, in the , Rlicstian Engadein, and Tyrolian

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