¬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
ROUTE 154 . STUTTGART TO NUREMBERG, Since the opening of the railways Nuremberg may be reached from Stutt gart in 15 hours; viz. Stuttgart to Süssen, railway* 2 hrs. (Rte. 152); Süssen through Heidenheim and Ne- resheim to Nördlingen, Eilwagen or omnibus* 10 hrs. • Nördlingen to Nu remberg, railway, 3 hrs, (Rte. 172). There are two post-roads. Aj 26 Germ. m. — I19| Eng. m., by Aalen, B, 24 Germ, m. = 110| Eng, m. by Hall. Eilwagen twice daily ; in the morning, by Aalen, in 23f hrs, ; even ing
, by Hall, in 24| lira. A. The way from Stuttgart lies through Cannstatt (described p. 18) to 2 Waiblingen (Inn: Post, very good, frequented by dinner parties from Stuttgart), a small town of 3000 Inhab,, originally Wibelingcn, an ancient possession of the family of Hohenstaufen, and which is believed to have furnished the name of Gkibel- line to the faction of the Emperors of that house, and thence to the Imperial party. At the battle of Weinsberg, a.d. 1140, between Conrad III. of Waib lingen and Duke
as to as t -a n < 1 - w a te r. 2 Schorndorf (5800 Inhab.) has a handsome Gothic church, with fine portal of 14th centy. Half-way be tween this and Gmünd is the monastery of J.or<;i ), in whose eh, many ( >1 the Hohenstaufen lie buried. It contains also frescoes. Opposite is a bleak hill, on which are some slight vestiges of the cas tle of Wäschenheuern, formerly called Büren, the original seat (Stammsitz) of the founder of the Hohenstaufen family. 3 Gmünd (Inns: Post, Rad), an ancient town of 6000 Inhab., on the Rems, formerly a free
Rechberg. the view ! from whose summit ( 2430 Eng.ft. above ; the sea-level) is said to be finer than that from the Hohenstaufenberg. The Rosen stein, another mountain on the rt. halfway between Gmünd and Aalen, also commands a very extensive pro spect. 3 Aalen (Post, unprepossessing, but it has one capital bedroom), an old Imperial city, on the Kocher, with 2800 Inhab. Here the road to Katisbon j strikes off (Rte, 164). Hence to Din* 1 kelsbilhl the road is devoid of interest. 1 At Wasseralfingen
there are extensive iron-furnaces, • ’ 2.| Ellwangen (Inn: Post, Adler), a town of 3000 Inhab., on the .1 axt, was once the chief town of the territory of I the princely Priory. The Castle of the \ priory still remains. It, the celebrated. J pilgrimage church on the Schiinljerqc, f and the Hauptkirche, are the principal I buildings. I 2j Dinkelsbühl (him: Drei .Mohr- f en ; Ochs), the first town in Bavaria ! (ö /6). A venerable walled town,, an- ' ctcntly a free city of the empire. It lias Toon
