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Category:
Literature
Year:
1901
Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol
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Page 175 of 182
Author: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari
Place: London
Publisher: Dent
Physical description: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Subject heading: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>
Location mark: II 100.626
Intern ID: 209616
, crackling sound Suddenly rose with a clangour as of tongues of brazen bells. 1 The popular name for Castle Greifenstein.

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Books
Category:
Literature
Year:
1901
Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol
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Page 180 of 182
Author: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari
Place: London
Publisher: Dent
Physical description: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Subject heading: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>
Location mark: II 100.626
Intern ID: 209616
Oswald von Wolkenstein 163 fantastic limestone giants (now named Dolomites) of the Grodnerthal, and dwelling at Hauenstein shadowed by the huge towers of the Schlern, he has no word of praise for his native peaks, save in one line of his “ Address to God " and, stranger still, is completely silent regarding their legendary fame. Yet the tale of King Laurin’s rose-garden, the feats of Dietrich of Bern, and the host of supernatural beings supposed to people the recesses of the Schlern, and the

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Books
Category:
Literature
Year:
1901
Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol
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Page 72 of 182
Author: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari
Place: London
Publisher: Dent
Physical description: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Subject heading: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>
Location mark: II 100.626
Intern ID: 209616
Oswald von Wolkenstein 59 her influence all his noblest aspirations budded afresh. In those holiday weeks, the pair wandered here and there in the legend-haunted forest, rested on the banks of its numerous lakelets, climbed to the flowery meads of the Seisser Alp and penetrated the rocky wilds of the Schlern. And, although the fact is unrecorded, surely they explored the mysterious cavern behind the waterfall at the head of the gorge, once the passage to the Magic Rose-garden, and discussed

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 323 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
river-side, which proved quite I insufficient to resist the torrent or pro tect the houses behind it. In the winter of 1807 an eboulement of earth and stones, or landslip, fell from the side of a mountain above Tirano (Monte Massuccio), on the rt. hank of the Adda, into the bed of the river, so as completely to dam up the stream. The waters rose to a great height, overflowed the surrounding vil lages and fields, forming a lake many tore* in extent, -which lasted 11 days, tad then burst» carrying

devastation rose. Near this 11 spires may l>e counted at one time, so numerous are the villages and churches in this part of the valley. The rise from Tirano to Bolladore is 1220 ft. 1.S (2 hrs. 20 min.) Bolladore. Capital bread and cheese (strachino) may be obtained at the post-house. Good beds also ; and though the resources of the inn are limited, all that is offered is good of its kind, 5 m. higher up, the narrow and picturesque defile of La Serra divides the Valteline from the territory of Bormio

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 436 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
same day in summer. At Gimino a road strikes off from the 1. to Rovigno, a seaport town of 10,000 Inhab., with a double harbour. Our road passes through Pan Vincente, a small village with a castle, and Dignano, a town of 3800 Inhab. (Inn wretched), in the vicinity of which is produced an excellent wine, called, from the perfume of roses which it exhales, Vino delle Rose. About 5 in. W. from Dignano and 7 from Pola is Peroi, a small village inhabited by a Greek colony , who still retain the language

, called Porto delle Rose, varied with numerous green islands, forming a

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Books
Category:
Sports, Games
Year:
1896
Climbing reminiscences of the Dolomites
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Page 161 of 282
Author: Sinigaglia, Leone / by Leone Sinigaglia
Place: London
Publisher: Fisher Unwin
Physical description: XXIII, 224 S. : Ill., Kt.
Notations: Nebent.: Sinigaglia, Leone: Climbing in the Dolomites
Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; s.Klettern
Location mark: III 148.670
Intern ID: 121780
120 CLIMBING IN THE DOLOMITES. at night the moon, looming above the horizon in a cloudless sky, rose to show us the three match less spires, erect and changeless, as if watchful of chance assaults, in the great nocturnal silence of the mountains; whilst on the opposite side, in marvellous contrast, she seemed to seek out the small lake of Boden, hitherto almost totally un observed, but which in her rays was then quite magically illuminated. For more than an hour did we remain, rapt

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Books
Category:
Sports, Games
Year:
1896
Climbing reminiscences of the Dolomites
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Page 193 of 282
Author: Sinigaglia, Leone / by Leone Sinigaglia
Place: London
Publisher: Fisher Unwin
Physical description: XXIII, 224 S. : Ill., Kt.
Notations: Nebent.: Sinigaglia, Leone: Climbing in the Dolomites
Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; s.Klettern
Location mark: III 148.670
Intern ID: 121780
ourselves for an enterprise which bold crags men did not dare to try, or in which, if they did try, they failed. Thus, carefully reconnoitring our ground, we arrived nearly as far as the top of the curious plateau known as the Lastoni di Formin, mounting- higher than was apparently needful to get a better view of the Croda. Nearly in front of us rose the northern peak with its double summit in all its boldness. Especially formidable appeared to us a smooth gully, vertical or even overhanging, which

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Books
Category:
Sports, Games
Year:
1896
Climbing reminiscences of the Dolomites
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Page 228 of 282
Author: Sinigaglia, Leone / by Leone Sinigaglia
Place: London
Publisher: Fisher Unwin
Physical description: XXIII, 224 S. : Ill., Kt.
Notations: Nebent.: Sinigaglia, Leone: Climbing in the Dolomites
Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; s.Klettern
Location mark: III 148.670
Intern ID: 121780
176 CLIMBING IN THE DOLOMITES. song which rose from the valley, and from time to time by the whirring- of some bird, scared by our foot steps, which left its warm nest in the darkness to seek a distant refuge. As we climbed, a wonderful sense of peace and well-being seemed to pervade the stillness around us. In such moments the ideas (to quote the words of Vittorio Sella) " are lost in a delicious atmosphere,” and are connected only by a slender web, vaporous and intangible as the shifting

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Books
Year:
1907
¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles
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Page 400 of 406
Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis
Place: London
Publisher: Naturw.-med. Verein
Physical description: XXXI, 288 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Location mark: II A-1.123
Intern ID: 136079
Probus, 55 Ptolemy, 53 " Pulverisation of Land,” 116 Pusterthal, 68 Rajtia, 11, 12, 13, 39, 42. 47 Ransoms of kings, 235 Rate of travelling, 64, 65 Rattenberg, 145 Ravenna,, 54 Reellberg, Bero von, 214, 220 Reconciliation, 22, 88, 203, 216 Regensburg, Bishop of, 80, 187, 188, 192 Reschen-Scheideck, 35, 38, 42, 60, 68 Restoration of castles, 132 Retzius, Z7 Richard of England, 19, 191 Riemenschneider, 166 Rienz, 56 Rise of silver and copper, 257 Rodlow, 40, 49, 51, 60 " Roman de Rose,” 168 Roman

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Books
Year:
1907
¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles
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Page 255 of 406
Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis
Place: London
Publisher: Naturw.-med. Verein
Physical description: XXXI, 288 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Location mark: II A-1.123
Intern ID: 136079
and pricket candlesticks of Romanesque workmanship, covered with the lovely patina of six centuries,and illuminated parchment MSS. Of the latter, one was acquired for a few shillings and sold after passing through the hands of several dealers for more than £2000, it being the earliest version we know of the Roman de Rose. And as for the contents of old armouries, Tyrol was for years an inexhaustible mine. Out of cartloads of mediaeval arms and armour, bought as old scrap iron by shrewd dealers

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Books
Year:
1907
¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles
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Page 169 of 406
Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis
Place: London
Publisher: Naturw.-med. Verein
Physical description: XXXI, 288 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Location mark: II A-1.123
Intern ID: 136079
THE COUNTRY’S HISTORY 99 beginning, for alter destroying numberless villages and castles in the Unter-Innthal, they captured even the capital. At this desperate juncture the Landsturm, or general levy of the peasantry, rose up (i7°3) an< I smote the invaders in various pitched engagements, the battle at the Pontlatzer Bridge being the most famous. For there an army of trained soldiers was utterly vanquished by a numerically much inferior, ill-armed force of peasants. The Emperor Leopold did not

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Books
Year:
1907
¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles
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Page 362 of 406
Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis
Place: London
Publisher: Naturw.-med. Verein
Physical description: XXXI, 288 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Location mark: II A-1.123
Intern ID: 136079
for some time strange anomalies continued to exist. One of the most striking to modern eyes is the great rise in the price of the two metals, silver and copper, which took place during the fifty years that wit nessed the height of the precious flood. Instead of receiving a check or going back in price in consequence of the immensely increased supply, the demand raised by a parched financial world outstripped the supply, and silver rose 50 per cent,, r'.e., from 8 fl, per mark to 12 fl., while

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1829
¬The¬ Cornice, the Grimsel and the Gries, the Bernardin and the Splugen, the Brenner, the Tende and the Argentière, and the Simplon.- (Illustrations of the passes of the Alps ; Vol. 2)
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Page 84 of 164
Author: Brockedon, William / by William Brockedon
Place: London
Publisher: Print. for the author, sold by Rodwell
Physical description: Getr. Zählung ; zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Notations: Illustrations of the passes of the Alps : by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany
Location mark: III 83.717/2
Intern ID: 333560
Roveredo, among many other beautiful scenes, there is one of the château of St. Pietro, where the steep banks and windings of the Adige are particularly striking ; but many fine views are shut out from the traveller in this part of the route by lofty walls, between which the road passes: these walls are raised to protect the vineyards. At Rove- redo, numerous silk-mills give a commercial and industrious character to the inhabitants. The largest inn, the Rose, is disgustingly dirty; and the

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Books
Year:
1907
¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles
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Page 321 of 406
Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis
Place: London
Publisher: Naturw.-med. Verein
Physical description: XXXI, 288 S. : zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Location mark: II A-1.123
Intern ID: 136079
Ulrich seemed to have chiefly resided. His youngest son, George the famous founder of the invincible Landsknechte, was however born in Mindelheim, on Sept. 24, 147Z, an event which one regrets not to be able to claim for Matzen. Of Ulrich the Tenth’s many sons, several besides George distinguished themselves. Ulrich (XI.) became Bishop of Trent. Adam followed in the steps of his uncle and father, and rose to be one of the leaders of the Suabian league, while Thomas (who retained the castles

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 497 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
is to say, 08 houses, were burned down in 1836. 2 Mies, The postmaster here,. Cap tain von Strenowita. served in the Peninsular War with untiring zeal and distinguished gallantry . He takes great pride in the testimonials he possesses to Ms'distinguished services, from the late Duke of York, Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, Le. &c. t ; 4 Pilsen (Inn : Weisse. Rose, homely, Mi clean and civil). This is the first day’s sleeping-place. (See p. 465.) During all this next stage the ruined of Reichenhard

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 387 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
, a town of 4000 Inhab. There are some frescoes by P. Veronese in one of its palaces. The founder of the re ligious order of the Theatins, Tiene, was born here in 1478. Marostica, 7 m., a picturesque town, last slope ot tne Kluetian Alps. — mains of its middle-age fortifications may still be seen in the upper town. On the highest point rose the Pocca, or Castle, of which a tall square tower remains, commanding a fine view from its top over the valley of fee Upper Piave and Alps of Gadore. In fee Piazza

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1829
¬The¬ Cornice, the Grimsel and the Gries, the Bernardin and the Splugen, the Brenner, the Tende and the Argentière, and the Simplon.- (Illustrations of the passes of the Alps ; Vol. 2)
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Page 147 of 164
Author: Brockedon, William / by William Brockedon
Place: London
Publisher: Print. for the author, sold by Rodwell
Physical description: Getr. Zählung ; zahlr. Ill.
Language: Englisch
Notations: Illustrations of the passes of the Alps : by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany
Location mark: III 83.717/2
Intern ID: 333560
Simplon, before they had even finished their studies in the School of Application ; they held no grade as engineers. Under M. Céard they rose to distinction, and were recommended by him to the government. How M. Polonceau repaid the obli gations, his renseignemens précieux sufficiently shew. M. Céard, who was living when the " Monumens des Victoires et Conquêtes” was published, hastened to vindicate his just claims to the honours which he had received, in a pamphlet (Mémoire et Observations

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 158 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
lost its University (at which the cele brated Dr, Fauetus studied) in 1800t it is now transferred to Munich, This was the first place in Germany where the Jesuits were allowed openly to es tablish themselves, and appear in the character of public teachers. Loyola called it affectionately " his little Ben- 1632, of the jamm, * 3 Inns: Rose; Miinch ner Hof. 1 he road crosses the Danube at * 2 Vohburg.

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 581 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
forms, and presenting by their lucidity a singular contrast to the sombre vaul ts and massive stalactites of the cavern. The traveller is recommended to go _rom Tornallya to the village of Agte- e , about 8 Eng, m. where expert Snides may be procured. The caverns or Agtelek, called also Farad!a, are a short distance above the village. The traveller after visiting them may pro ceed to Pleissnitz (Pelsocz), a small market town on the post-road to Rose- nau, or by making a détour of 2 or 3 m. may

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 492 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
- War. but is still in taler- ; mines, and northwards. mm. with wails : -5 ft, whole edifice. In 2 Pilsen. (Inns: Schwarzer Adler; Kaiser von Österreich; Weisse Rose.)

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬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
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Page 146 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
, is an oc tagonal eippus. bearing this inscrip tion—“ Hi c occulttis occulto occisus 14 pec 1833;—'which marks the !L ne 0 f his mysterious assassination. There is a second-rate theatre here. U Triesdorf. Here is a deserted villi of the Margraves. 2 Günzenhausen. (See Rte. 1/2.) The road passes through Ellmgen, which with the surrounding domain, waspresented to the Bavarian Field Marshal Wrede, for his services .In the last war. About 3 m. from Klim* S 2i Weissenburg — (/«a • Rose, dear bad)—a town of 4000

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