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II A GLIMPSE OF THE COUNTRY river, and is therefore far enough off not to jar upon the eye or ear. And as to the motors scurrying along the fine broad high-road at our feet, we are too high up to be incommoded by their dust or noise. On the contrary, do not these characteristic emblems of modernity instinc tively tempt us to contrast bygone times with the latter, and to recall the past story of this ancient high road at our feet ? Let us pass in review some of the mediaeval scenes that must

have been witnessed by the inmates of the old pile we are in. To do so we must first give a few details of its origin that take us back to the days before the birth of Christ, when Raetia was still a wilderness peopled with heathens. That the point of rock jutting out into the valley upon which the tower and castle of Matzen stand, was the site of human habitations from very early times, is shown by the discovery of numerous pre-Roman utensils, orna ments and arms that have been dug up at different

times in what might be described as the castle’s back-garden. These bronze bracelets, - armrings, fibulae or early shape, and spearheads take us back to periods long anterior to the birth of Raetia as a Roman province,* to centuries that had come and gone when Drusus and Tiberius’ , personally conducted invasion of Tyrol, a dozen or so of years before the commencement of the Christian era, added another province to the Roman world-empire. The much discussed question who the original inhabitants

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Literature

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1901

Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

Page 6 of 182

Author: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

Physical description: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.

Publisher: Dent

Subject heading: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>

Location mark: II 100.626

Intern ID: 209616

hi my hero's poems and times, that the work grew in my hands to its present proportions. Lor Oswalt! cannot be properly studied apart Tom his times, and the well-rewarded! labour of readnm hi< verses in his own vernacular using Tie modernised version as a book ol ich. it net", Jtnpelled me to try to give some faint: idea, of his value as a poet. Pursuing the work hi another

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 57 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

A GLIMPSE OF THE COUNTRY 15 defences.* When in the year 1468 the family who had resided in it for at least three centuries, parted with it, it became a place of pleasant abode rather than of defence, its new owners, among whom we shall hear were some famous people, being of the moneyed and not of the martial class. Conflagrations in subsequent centuries probably also helped to change the aspect of the castle, though the last traces of the outer fortifications did not disappear until modem times

. In Roman days the whole valley land near the river w as a morass and subject to constant spring and summer overflows, which elementary disturbances continued until the last century, when vast works regulating the impetuous river for a length of more than a hundred miles were carried through. And until late times these riverine lands, w hich were covered with dense brush, were the home °f wild beasts, particularly of wolves and wild boars, w hieh committed such ravages among the peasants’ cattle

ar *d crops as to cause loud complaints. Historians tell 0l *e that the great peasants’ rebellion of 1525 was partly caused by this grievance, for the chase was a manorial Privilege. The Roman road from Veldidena to Mascia- c um did not for this reason traverse, as was once thought, jkcse impassable marshes, but kept to the side hills. exact course it took was, however, unknown until fltute recent times, when researches illustrated once again àc correctness of the principle observed by these master toad

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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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Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany

Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer

6 ft. deep, and injured the walls and foun dations of the houses so much, that to this day many of them require to be supported on props. At Lovere an in scription, about 18 ft. from the ground, records the height to which the water ing out the torrent. At T resend a |ths of the way to Tirano, a fine road leads S. over the Adda, by Aprica to Edolo in the Val Camouica. (Etc. 231.) From Edolo the traveller can proceed to Bergamo and Brescia, by a Dilhfence 3 times a week, along the shores of the

La go dMseo. Omnibuses daily to Colico to meet the steamers; 4 times a week to Bormio. Madonna di Tirano (Inn : Madonna), a small village, named from a church of the Virgin, also called 11 Santuario, lies at the mouth of the valley of Pus- chiavo. A road, partly practicable for cars, leads up it to the foot of the pass of the Bernina, and into the Engadine. The lake of Puschiavo, only 5 m. above Madonna, is exceedingly beautiful, and its trout delicious. The Swiss frontier is only 1 m. from Madonna. (See

Hand- hook for Switzerland.} If (2Z hrs.) Tirano (Inn : Post, dirty and extortionate), a small town of 2700 Inhab., which has suffered severe de vastations at various times from the inundations of the Adda. Indeed, it appears quite evident to all but the in habitants that a town has no business on the spot where they have set theirs down, since it is in perpetual danger of being swept away. A fearful tempest in August, 1834, completely destroyed a dyke of massive masonry, constructed along the

, It was closed in ancient times by a strong wall and gate over the road, which was shut at night, thus preventing all passage up or down the valley, whence it was called the loch. 1 ï (2 hrs.) An additional horse is required here. Bormio. (Tirano to Bormio, with stoppages, 7-| hrs.) (Ger man, Worms)— Inm: La Posta, exceed ing dirty, and had in other respects; Das Lamm. The Baths, m. higher up the valley, are far better quarters than either ; -.[• post extra is charged for driving thither, but

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1855

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are required to meet at stated times to practise target-firing. After the revolt of Milan, 27th March, 1843, the Tyrolese were called out against the Italians, and at once re sponded to the call with the same loyalty as heretofore. Every valley sent forth its contingent of sturdy riflemen. They marshalled themselves in the cause of the Emperor, and they chose their own officers. The assembly of the Estates, or Parliament of Tyrol, is the only one of the kind in the Austrian dominions in which

deputies from the peasants are admitted along with the nobles, clergy, and burghers of the towns. These convocations can be traced back to very ancient times. In 1323 they were assembled at Botzen. § 106. RIFLE-SHOOTING. —ATHLETIC EXERCISES. Ride-shooting is a favourite pastime in all parts of Austria, but nowhere to the same extent as in Tyrol, whose inhabitants may be called the Kentuckians of Europe. Bred to the use of the weapon from their boyhood, and priding them selves above measure in the

-StiUte), where j the peasants meet to practise on Sundays and holidays. At stated times every | year matches are made, and the marksmen of one village, parish, or valley, meet I to contend for a prize with another. Such trials of skill are worth the traveller's 1 attention ; the common distance is from 250 to 300 paces, and a good shot will j hit the bull's-eye three times out of five. The victor is carried home in triumph, j with flags, music, and garlands, by his own people, and receives

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1855

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Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer

as St. Genevieve, a true picture of Resignation; and the Virtue of Joseph in Egypt: the actors as well as the writers are the peasants them selves. As compositions, it may he sup posed their productions are not very distinguished; there is no limit to the length of their lines, provided they rhyme at the end. They are some times indeed extempore effusions. The players of the villages of Pradl and Buchsenhausen are the most skilful, and all the parts are there filled by girls. The performances usually com mence

in the afternoon at 2 (§ 107). FAhoagcn go from Innsbruck daily to Salzburg in 20A hrs., Vienna in 62^ hrs., Munich in 21^ hrs., Verona by Botzen over the Brenner in 36 hrs., and to B regen z, Stelhcagcn — a sort of omnibus—go daily to Hall—several times a week to Landek and Meran—to Botzen and Verona, ROUTE 213. landek to meran and botzen, by the finstermunz pass. 21i Aust. m, = 100 Eng. in. An excellent road, traversed by an Filwagcii Tues. and Fri., and by Stell* wagen S or 4 times a week. The

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 393 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

MATZEN UP TO MODERN TIMES 279 on that memorable day had hailed, he would turn in the direction in which it lay, and point with his hand to it as if his poor sightless eyes had regained their power, for it was truly wonderful how correctly he pointed. When asked how and when he had lost his eyesight, his reply was quite pathetic. “ Well, the sun that shone that day was the last I ever saw ; on returning home and mixing the ingredients for a fresh supply of rifle powder, the contents of the

mortar exploded in my face, and since then it has been one sixty years’ night for me.” And, after a pause : " But we beat them that day, so I don’t complain,” and the old fellow quite cheerfully fell to asking me whither I hailed and whence I was going in the simple fashion of his race. So impoverished was Tyrol by its heroic resistance, that her population from highest to lowest felt for many decades the pinch of hard times, and the once wealthy owners of the historic old Matzen made no exception

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Geography, Travel guides

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1855

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to the boatman's oars. Few of these barges are constructed with sufficient solidity to be towed up the stream after having descended it. Some times as many as 30 or 40 horses are attached to the towing-rope to draw them, with a wild-looking peasant driver to each pair, whose shouts and screams are audible long before the train itself makes its appearance. The horses have frequently to wade across ows and back-waters at. the side | of the river, and at times to ford the river itself, and it is this

monastery, : was Napoleon’s head-quarters, 1805. Marshal Ney obtained the title of Duke of Elcliingen for his daring passage of the river at this point, which led to t capture of Mack. (See p. 20.) rt. Fahlheim and Leipheim its castle, in ancient times a sanctuary, for those who had committed man slaughter) are famous for snails, which are bred, fattened, and exported in casks by millions, as a delicacy of the table. Here begins a long flat peat bog, called Ried, which extends to Lan in gen

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 378 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

MATZEM UP TO MODERN TIMES 269 desired 200,000 fl. But it was not cash that was forth coming, for Hochstetter himself was just then short of that commodity, but as he had just successfully managed to make a “ comer " in quicksilver, the first of its kind, he advanced Charles some 350,000 lbs. of that article, and 60,760 lbs. of cinnabar. This quantity had, of course, to be sold at once, and as it realised only 126.000 fl. there was a loss to the imperial exchequer of some 74,000 fl., Hochstetter

Fuggers were to send * The Hoehstetters were the first German merchants who secured the privilege in England of importing and exporting merchandise. Joachim of that ilk, who founded a branch establishment in London, was made " Principal Surveyor and Master of all Mines " in England. His eye for business must have been unusually keen, for he succeeded in creating monopolies in several other articles besides mercury, in corn, wine, and in bow staves, which he bought in times of peace, and sold

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 337 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

of sovereigns were however not of such far-reaching effect in regard to the formation of a “ regiment ” as they would be nowadays, for frequently the Colonel to whom the government entrusted this duty, or who in the stress of the moment undertook it on his own responsibility, was prepared to risk the necessary funds in a speculative spirit. A leader of a “ regiment ” in those times had many chances of making money, not the least being the ransom that prisoners of rank were willing to pay to regain their

liberty,* and his portion of the loot captured in towns, or of the indemnity that these were only too willing to pay to escape the inevitable pillage after surrender. Defeat in such a war, of course, * This ransom often amounted to very large sums. That paid by Francis I. after his capture at Pavia is said to have been 2 million sterling; The ransom of King John of France after his capture at Poitiers was fixed at 3000 times a thousand ecus d'or which would cor respond with about 40 million sterling

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 367 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

MATZEN UP TO MODERN TIMES 261 portion of the two metals was from 30 to 40 lb. of copper to the mark of silver, the latter being equal to half a pound Cologne weight, or in other words, it contained from 60 to 80 parts of copper to one part of silver. Only the richest stuff was treated, the poorer ore being thrown aside as waste.* In the course of time huge masses of this waste accumulated on dumps, and when the rich pockets became exhausted, and smelting processes improved, the waste was worked

houses in Schwaz one sees to this day, notwithstanding that the town has been burnt down several times in the interval, large lumps of the argentiferous silver ore built into the wall, placed there by miners in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as a sort of votive offering. On one occasion I secured a piece from One of these old picked specimen lumps, and while I was living in Butte City, Montana, mystified a local assayer by letting him assay a piece of it. It ran 2000 dollars to the ton, and

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[ca. 1910]

Innsbruck and its environs

Page 80 of 177

Author: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

Place: Innsbruck

Publisher: Edlinger

Physical description: 119 S. : Ill., Kt.

75 Excursion* ic bo made from Innsbruck. adorned with many quaint bits of carving and painting in summer die windows- — as so often in Tyrol — are filled with boxes of bright growing flowers. There are, as asual, a church, and ann inn or Uasthaus. Shrines glowing with color mark some of the by-ways, and some-times they are heaped high with masses of freshly gathered flowers. higher on a neighboring hillside the buff walls of Castle Fried- ®erg glimmer among the trees. In mediaeval times

Location mark: I 59.984

Intern ID: 194449

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1855

Page 562 of 598

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Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany

Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer

at, the mouth of a defile, be- S unload. tween two eminences, one of which bears the ruins of a Turkish castle. The town was destroyed along with die fort by the Russians, and is now only a collection of 30 mud huts. Here the river is so broad that the opposite bank can scarcely be dis cerned ; it is at times very rough in stormy weather. Hereabouts it is: split into several channels, by numerous islands, which continue nearly all the way to Galatz, and render the naviga All persons arriving from

Russians, in 1711, 1770, and minions, yet so completely ha« WwSi 1828. It has now risen to be a flou-’ *’— - 1 s rishing town, and it has become the port of Wallachia. In 1836, 382 vessels entered it. Its chief export is corn, which Wallachia produces in teeming abundance. In former times Constan- ... a F p^ raQce tinople drew its chief supplies of com a near approach is most unfavourable ■ from hence. | it has scarcely a house of stone or Corn warehouses of stone are about j above one story high; and

between the sëreth | nant |)oo! s »hi'ch, 77 all times collet v . . > » —- t* » MJli U,L CO I I iP»' aid Froth, about So m from the Sulina beneath the logs. Imagine these cabi mouth of the Danube. It is a free port, | dark and sombre within, and without of great consequence as one of the outlets j filthy with mud, surrounded with tj F of the rich grain country of the valley of i sades; a sorry caravansera by wawr the Danube, destined for ages to come to 1 inn, with apartments almost witb 0 °I he the

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1905

Botzen-Gries and the Mendel Pass.- (Geuter's Illustrated Guide Books)

Page 54 of 79

Place: Darmstadt [u.a.]

Publisher: Jandl

Physical description: 68 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Bozen ; f.Führer g.Bozen <Region> ; s.Wandern ; f.Führer

Location mark: I A-4.631

Intern ID: 161592

quarter of an hour, affords a superb panorama of the valleys of the Adige and Eisack. The building of the castle dates from very olden times, because an Episcopal citadel, Form i gar by name, which was situated on this rock, was mentioned in documents as early as the 9 th century. In the 15 th century, the castle tell into the hands of the Ruler of the Country, Duke Sigismund, who

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Year:

1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 74 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

when bad times came and money for his various wars grew scarcer and scarcer, and the empire became threatened not only by many external foes, but also by internal religious strife, the ingratitude of the Innsbruck burghers to whom he had bestowed in past times so many favours, brought on a fatal fever.* In spite of it, in spite of the severity of the wintry weather, he had himself taken on board his barge, in order to travel to Vienna by the quickest route, viz., down the Inn, which was still open

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Page 357 of 406

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

PLATE (1H THE TOWN OF SCHWATZ, THE RICHEST MINING TOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES Round this town were situated the richest silver and copper mines known in mediaeval times. At one time 30,000 miners were employed there. Overlooking the town is the castle of Frundsberg, whose glory was then already on the wane. Now nothing is left of it but a tower. The covered bridge over the Inn River is the structure that caused fierce quarrels between the knights of Frundsberg and the Abbot of St. Georgenberg

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1828

¬The¬ Little Saint Bernard, the Mont Genèvre, the Mont Cenis, the Mont Saint Gothard, the Great Saint Bernard, and the Stelvio.- (Illustrations of the passes of the Alps ; Vol. 1)

Page 103 of 150

Author: Brockedon, William / by William Brockedon

Publisher: Print. for the author, sold by Rodwell

Physical description: Getr. Zählung ; zahlr. Ill.

Notations: Illustrations of the passes of the Alps : by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany

Location mark: III 83.717/1

Intern ID: 333558

the breach m the dyke of ice and snow which formed the lake ; in five times greater quantity, and with five times greater velocity, than the waters of the Rhine at Basle, where the river is one thousand three hundred English feet wide. Of this calamitous event the best account is by M. Escher dè Lenth, published in the Bib. Univ, de Genève sci et arts, tom 8, p. 291. t If the traveller merely visit the convent, he returns to Liddes the next day, and resumes his char ; if he proceed to Aosta, his

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1905

Botzen-Gries and the Mendel Pass.- (Geuter's Illustrated Guide Books)

Page 70 of 79

Place: Darmstadt [u.a.]

Publisher: Jandl

Physical description: 68 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Bozen ; f.Führer g.Bozen <Region> ; s.Wandern ; f.Führer

Location mark: I A-4.631

Intern ID: 161592

Grand Hotel Penegai At the Alpine Aerial Health-Resort et Mendel. 4495 ft. above the level of the sea. First-Class Family Hotel; situateli in an extensive iir-forest. It can. be reached from Botzen in l 1 /» hr, by cable-railway. The Hotel is fitted up with all comforts of mo dern times. Ken plenum ime dor’s a Mm 01 dim, Board and Residence from 8 K. Splendid and comfortable Assembly-Rooms. Co vered Verandas. Lawn-1 Post and Telegraph Offices; Telephone, Physician and Dispensary. Electric Light

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Geography, Travel guides

Year:

1905

Botzen-Gries and the Mendel Pass.- (Geuter's Illustrated Guide Books)

Page 75 of 79

Place: Darmstadt [u.a.]

Publisher: Jandl

Physical description: 68 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Bozen ; f.Führer g.Bozen <Region> ; s.Wandern ; f.Führer

Location mark: I A-4.631

Intern ID: 161592

15 th. The Hotel is fitted up with all comforts of modern times. Electric Light throughout. Central - Heating. Lift. Large Garden and Pleasure-Grounds, containing about 30000 square yards. Post and Telegraph Offices. Tickets can be obtained at the Hotel, and luggage will be forwarded. Ch. Ltitzelschwab, Proprietor. Apartments with Bath and Lavatory.

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[ca. 1910]

Innsbruck and its environs

Page 152 of 177

Author: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

Place: Innsbruck

Publisher: Edlinger

Physical description: 119 S. : Ill., Kt.

Francisci^Bath in Haring, - Season; lay—October. . " H 650 m sea-level 'Half an hour from the railway-station Kirchbichi :f *4 of an hour from the station Worgl in a charming valley surrounded 1 by coniferous woods. Warm spring of 30 0 R. with 30 rooms ans- if werlng to every request of modern times, dining hall, terrace, veranda- : | The mineral baths are more particularly qualified against (7*) b| rheumatism, gout, indigestion, want of blood ete. K Heidelberg. <?< Vi HOTEL PRINZ CARL ■ I'l

Location mark: I 59.984

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Year:

1855

Page 356 of 598

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Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer