The New York herald., 1874-09-27
KISSINGEN.
KIssiNGEN, August %, 1874.

KissiNGEN, August %, 1874.
Kisslngen--quiet, charming, tdylhc, monotonous
Kissngen-has attained sudden and, to its innabl-
tants, very unwecome notoriety. The Kissin-
genites have been trembling in their boots for
the last three four days In fear that Prince Bis
marck. not feeling safe among them, and watering
places not yet being admitted by international
treaties as sacred from the blow Of the assassin,
would pack up and leave their city for better pro-
tected springs. The fact OF the Prince taking their
waters is IN itself advertisement OF lncalcuable
value for them, and If the King of Bavaria comes
to visit them they believe their future Will be as
sured. one would imagine, judging by the fame
which exported Kssingen waters have all over
the world that the place had really some impor-
tance, instead OF being what 1T isa little, sleepy.
pleasant city, having some 5000 or 1000 natives
and as many guests, who, as write this, about ten
O'Clock In the evening, are nearly al, Ia bed and
fast asleep-yea, this hour or more. Kissngen
has not yet attained to the character and dig
nifty OF "luxus bad" 1t is one of the most eco
nomical watering places in Germany, which fact
may be, perhaps, accounted for in the scarcity OF
Americans and English. OF the 1000 guests re-
corded up to the present time as having visited
the city, only 900 were foreigners and of these 25O
were English and ninety Americans-tor the most
part German-Amercans. The majority OF the
guests hail from Berlin. Two-thirds OF this ma.
jority, again, appears TO have an Oid Testament
type OF physiognomy. The rest are shopkeepers,
petty officials, heavy tnnkeepers, with their fraus
ana priests with small incomes.
NATURAL BEAUTIES OF KIssINGEN.
Nature has done everything in her power to
make Kissingen an attractive place Of sojourn,
anu where she failed the Kngs OF Bavaria came
to her aid. The scenery about the city partakes Of
q quiet, idvlic character. The mountains are not
high, but pleasantly wooded and crowned with
ruins and legends. The little river SaaIe flows
right through the city, between shade banks CIV
ing many gem OF beautiful scenery all along its
course 1t comes from the north through lovely
valley, murnuring through meadows and beside
the long lovers avenue OF trees that extend from
Kissingen for two miles to the salt evaporat-
ing establishments. And it does not lose its
idyllc character when 1t enters the city.
II passes demurely under the bridge and
to the rear OF the Conversation House through
the Kurgarten-tn its waters the delicious trout,
on its surface the poetic swan. The city itself, or
at least that part away from the esplanade, bears
a decidedly rural town character; yet the old and
the modern seem to agree well together and give
accommodation to the different classes who come
here for the cure. on the market place SIT the
fruit and vegetable women, as brown and as
wrinkled and quaint as they were two hundred
years ago; WnlIe Just GOWN tne street, nunured
yards away, the new life has grown up about the
sprlngs In one part Of the city we And peasant
cottages and orchards, through which mountain
streams now rapidly, laborlng as they pass; on
the other are pleasant villas and stately
hotels In the former the traces Of the
original character OF kssingen are seen IN the
crucihxes along the wayside and the statues OF
the Madonna, wnlle on the latter, on the walks OF
the espianade, are statues wrought Ia marble Of
monarchs and symboical ideas, and monument tai
edi1ces wmch bear SO essentiany the character oil
King Ludwig LIS creations that We hardly need TO
refer to our GUIDE book for corrobOTation. He
built the long arcades with the Conversation
House on the side OF the esplaDade. He seemed
20 love arcades ard galleries, structures which
were peculiarly adapted TO leave room whereon
ms great artists could exercise their talent. But
Years afterward the old art King had 70 lay down
his sceptre and retire to private lite, vbere he had
/ no longer The funds or the enthusiasm to carry
/ out his grand art ideas.
/ GLINPsEs OF THE PAST
And besides nature history has been busy a,
work about here, and legend clings to the
mountains and ruined castles, Tacitus tells US
that some fifty or more years before Curlst was
/ horn TWO German tribes, the kattl ana the Her
mundurii quarreied here about the possession o
salt springs, and had pitched battle, in which
the KattIi got the worst OF the array. ST. kllian
patron OF frsnconia, came here Just l,lb3 years
/ ago, and finding the Teuton5 engaged III worship
ping the statue or one OF thelr go0d-lor-nOthlnt
| goddesses, on the top OF one oI these mountains
| about u.s. ne cast IL to the ground and planted II
its place the true cross and went on converting
| the heather unttl he was martyred at WdrZburg
Then came ST Bonllace, tue Engiishman, ant
held two assemblies OF tne CnuTch AT the SaaiDurg
close bv. and founded the Bshopric OF Wurzburg
| Then CnaremagDe once came tins way and helpet
| Christianity to Vet q nrm ioothnlh bg sixsnQ w