The old Ducal Castle, also within the town, is now the Mint. In the suburb outside the walls is the more modern Château or Palace of the dukes of the extinct line of Saxe-Saalfeld, with fine gardens attached to it. The road now quits the banks of the Saal, and begins to ascend the central ridge of the Thüringer Wald. The battle of Jena, so fatal to Prussia, began near Saalfeld. 2 Gräfenthal. Inns: Post; Weisses Ross. Near this you have a fine view of Wespenstein, an old castle of the Pappenheims, in ruins. 31 Sonnenberg. This little town of 3200 inhab. is chiefly remarkable for the peculiar manufacture of toys, dolls, boxes of various kinds, including pill-boxes, boot-jacks, chess-boards, and the endless variety of articles for the amusement of children which fill the toy-shops of every quarter of the globe, and are commonly called Dutch toys. There are several manufactories of papier maché, to make dolls' heads, and of pipe heads; and one or two mills for grinding boys' marbles. Hones for sharpening knives are pre- | pared here out of a species of slate; and there is also a quarry producing slate-pencils, in the neighbourhood. Altogether the trade in toys is supposed to produce 400,000 fl. yearly. 2 Neustadt.-Inn, Halbe Mond. 1 Coburg. (In Rte. 93.) ROUTE 94 a. WEIMAR TO CARLSBAD BY JENA, Posting, 1st day, to Altenburg, 68 Eng. m. in 11 h.; 2d day, to Carlsbad, 763 Eng. m., in 134 hrs. This is a good post road through beautiful and richly cultivated country, and may afford a variation of the journey to those acquainted with the usual route by Leipzig. The first part of the road traverses some singularly bare looking ravines, one of which leads down into the broad valley in which stands 11⁄2 Jena. Inn: Sonne. A dull, dingy, antiquated town, in a hollow surrounded by naked hills, having nothing worth notice but its University, founded 1550, and numbering at present about 500 students. "Groups of them, in falling collars not particularly clean, and flowing hair not remarkably glossy, may be seen swaggering about with foils, masks, and cudgels."-- L. R. G. The University Museum is valuable to students. The Garden of the Observatory was Schiller's favourite resort while Professor of History, between 1789 and 1799, and he composed in it some of his poems. "The road, somewhat narrow and very serpentine, but not bad, takes its course among clear streams and happy looking villages, and afterwards" through forests of pine, to 3 Kloster Launitz, a clean village inn. There is a new and better road from Jena to hills occur, at one of which additional | yourself in the undulating valley of horses are put on. the Eger.-L. R. G. 2 Wildenthal (a capital rural Inn), a neat village, where a good deal of lace is made and sold. After following for a long way a wooded gorge, you at length emerge from the hills a little beyond 2 Neudeck, where the Austrian frontier is crossed, and you find 2 Carlsbad,-in HANDBOOK SOUTH GERMANY. There is a road from Altenberg to Dresden by Rochletz, 3. Waldheim, 24. Nossen, 21. Wilsdruff, 2. Dresden, 2. Or by way of Freyberg to Penig, 2. Chemnitz, 3 (as in Rte. 90.). ROUTE RHE AND THE RHINE FROM PRELIMINARY INFORMATION. — 52. Money.—53. Posting. PAGE ROUTE 103. Mannheim to Heidelberg PAGE 525 508 511 512 Freyburg to Schaffhausen 563 -564 100. Vale of the Nahe- Bingen to Worms, Mannheim, Spires, § 52. MONEY. In Nassau, Baden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, &c., accounts are kept in Florins 1 Florin-1s. 8d., contains 60 kreutzers. 3 kr. = 1d. The States of Southern and Western Germany, including Bavaria, Würtemberg, Baden, Hesse, and Frankfurt, have recently combined to issue a uniform coinage. (See § 30.) New Silver Coinage. kr. Vereins Thaler=3 Florins 30 kr. =2 Prussian Dollars. Formerly the florin was an imaginary coin, and did not exist as a piece of money. The name zwanziger properly applies to Austria alone, where this coin goes for 20 kreutzers, and bears upon it the figure 20, the zwanziger or zehner passes for 10, and the for 5 kreutzers: while in Bavaria and Würtemberg the same coins pass respectively for 24, 12, and 6 kr. Value of foreign coins in florins and kreutzers: Brabant Dollars (originally struck by the Emperor of Austria in the Low Countries) are a very common coin, current without loss throughout Southern Germany. The table (A) at the beginning of this Volume for reducing them into florins and kreutzers may be found useful. 45 55 1 5 kr. The postmaster in Mayence is authorised to charge 521 kr. for each horse per post. Baden 1 30 36 45.. 1 10 The charges for horses vary from time to time with the price of forage. The charge for barriers ceases on entering this Duchy. The usual rate of travelling is a post in 11 h. to 1 h., when the road is not very hilly. The distances to all the adjoining post stations are hung up in front of every post-house. Travellers usually pay the postilion 1 fl. for 2 horses per post, which is quite enough. On some roads 1 fl. 12 kr. (3 zwanzigers) is given, which is high pay. N. B. An extra charge of 30 kr. per post is made by the postmaster, when a postboy, driving only 2 horses, is obliged to ride, and cannot sit on the box of the carriage. A light open carriage, holding 4 without heavy baggage, may be drawn by 2 horses: a heavy trunk counts as one person. A postchaise or calèche costs from 50 kr. to 1 florin a post. The Wagenmeister, when entitled to be paid separately, usually receives 12 kr., and 12 more when he greases the wheels. Charges at Inns:- Rooms on 1st floor, 1 fl. to 1 f. 12 kr. ; 2d or 3rd floor, 36 kr.; table d'hôte, 48 kr. to 1 fl. 12 kr.; bottle of wine, 18 kr.; breakfast (coffee or tea, with bread and butter), 20 kr. Mr. George Bernard's Illustrations of the Rhine and Brunnen of Nassau contain the cleverest and most exact representations of the scenes and persons occurring in that interesting district which the writer of this is acquainted with. ROUTE 95. ROUTES. THE BATHS AND BRUNNEN OF NASSAU. 14 Germ. miles =64 Eng. miles. Schnellpost, as far as Wiesbaden, (whence a railroad runs to Frankfurt,) every day, in 8 hrs. Lohnkutscher (34.), may be found in abundance at all the watering-places. To Ems, omnibus 4 or 5 times a-day in the season. The new and most frequented road from Coblenz to Ems avoids the high and steep hills, laboriously surmounted by the old road, by following the level of the Rhine, ascending its rt. bank, passing orchards and vineyards, to Nieder Lahnstein (p. 279.), at the mouth of the Lahn; and thence up its rt. bank through the village of Nievern, Ahl, and the iron-works of Hohenrain. The distance is nearly 12 m., a most agreeable drive of 2 hrs. through varied and beautiful scenery. There is a foot-path over the hills by Arxheim and Fachbach, a walk of 2 hours-difficult to find without a guide. 2 Ems. Inns and lodging houses: The Alte Kurhaus, a huge rambling château, formerly the residence of the Duke, contains nearly 300 chambers, which are let, according to their size and situation, at from 48 kr. to 8 fl. a day. A good room may be had for f. 30 kr.: the price of every room is painted on the door. There is a restaurateur attached to the house, and a daily table-d'hote at 1, which, however, is not so good as that at some other inus. Those who intend to take up their lodgings in the Bath-house apply on their arrival to the Bad-, or Haus-meister, a species of steward, who has the charge of the establishment, and of the letting of the rooms, and who gives every information respecting vacancies and prices. The rent of the rooms returns a considerable annual revenue to the Duke of Nassau. - H. Darm H. d'Angleterre, a very comfortable house for families, table d'hôte at 1, 54 kr.; at 30, 1 fl. 30 kr. de Russie: good, but dear. städter Hof, (Post);-Fürstenhof;Baierischer Hof, in the Obere Allée, remote from the bustle, and recomH.T. mended as a lodging-house. There is a Table d'hôte at 1 in all the hotels, in the Kurhaus and Kursaal, and also one at 4 P. M. at the Kursaal and H. d'Angleterre and de Russie, chiefly for the English, and more expensive in consequence.-Britannia, formerly Mainzer Haus, on the 1. bank of the Lahn, a quiet lodginghouse; - Die Vier Thurmen (Four Towers); - Die Vier Jahreszeiten; |