Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-31
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WHOLE NO. 1856.

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On the route to Baden>Baden W,
pass through Frankfort on the-Main
which we give only brief visit. L
is an interesting city presenting Ell
tirely different phases in the old and
new parts. The new part is particn,
larry fine and the Jews quarter in the
old is great curiosity. We pass the
Hotel de Swah where Bismarck and
Theirs signed the treaty at the con
clusion of the Franco German war,
the house with projecting stories on
the corner of the street in which Mar.
tin Luther lived for short time, the
small plain house in which Goethe
was born in l749, the Jewish Syna-
| gogue, said to be the richest Jewish
congregation in the world, two open
squares, one containing a fine monu-
ment of Gutenberg the father OF
printing, and the other of Goethe, the
poet, the Borse or money market, and
numerous cathedrals and public build
ings. One of the most interesting
parts of Frankfort is the old Jewish
Quarter which has curious wood
houses many stories high. One of the
most dilapidated of these is pointed
ont as the residence of the father OF
the distinguished Rothschild family.
Until 1906 this Jews street was
closed and locked every night and
during holidays and no Jew was per.
mitted to appear in the city under
penalty of a heavy fine.
Baden Baden, which dates TO as
early an origin as Wiesbaden is one
of the most popular watering places
IN Europe and has no rival in Germa.
ny except Wiesbaden. 1t is most
delightfully."- situated on the little river
Cos, just in the edge of the Black
Forest, in the midst of well wooded
hills which only short distance from
the city rise into mountains. The
general characteristics of the city are
the same as those of Wiesbaden.
The chemical ingredients of the
boiling springs and the complaints for
which the water is considered benefi.
cial are nearly the same as have al
ready been mentioned. Baden has
has its beautiful parks, its music. its
its Bazaar, and its Conversationhaus or
Cursaal, which is much finer than the
one at Wiesbaden. This was built
and fitted up by the lessee of the gam
bling privilege, and in this building
were the gaming tables which were
so famous all over Europe. In 1872
public gambling was prohibited all
over Germany, and since then this
beautiful building with it's great rooms
SO gorgeously fitted mp is used as
music hall and place for public enter
tainments. Baden also has fine
theatre near the Cursaal, and on the
other side of it Trinkhall where the
water from all the springs is collect
ed This has broad, open portico,
with large Corinthian pillars, and on
large panels over the windows back
of the pillars are fourteen paintings of
large size pictnring some of the local
legends with which nearly every Ger
man village abounds. Baden from its
proximity to the Black Forest, which
was supposed to be inhabited by all
kinds of enchanters and spirits is par
ticularly rich in such legends. For a
long distance through the city the
Cos flows through an artiicially made
stone covered channel, the center.
where the water is confined most of
the time, being gutter less than two
feet wide and not more than six inch
es deep.
The park, which extends for a long
way up the stream is kept in perfect
order, but somehow our enjoyment of
it received chill, when one morning
while taking an early walk we found
as many as thirty old and middle
aged women bareheaded, sweeping
the carriage ways and carrying the
dirt away in large wheelbarrows. Ba-
den is certainly beautiful place and
must be a delightful summer resi-
dence for wealthy German. For a
few days at least during the season,
in common with three or four other
summer resorts Baden basks in the
sunlight of imperial favor, and num-
bers the Emperor William among her
honorable guests. The round of
amasements is much the same as at
Wiesbaden and other resorts. Much
ofthe glory of Baden is departed with
the closing of the gambling establish
ments and the citizens think with
warnings unntterable of the good
times now gone by when the gold so
recklessly poured out at the gaming
table flowed in a rich stream through
the shops and boarding houses of tie
city.
A drive of an hour all the way mp
hill brings US to the ruins of the old
castle thousand feet above the city.
The castle was built many hundred
years ago, and was made OF large
rough stone without any attempt at
ornamentation. The view from the
tower gives US a wide outlook over
the Rhine, The valley in which Baden
is situated, and beyond, the broad
somber expanse of the Black Forest.
In going from Frankfort to Baden, a
distance of little more than hun
dred miles, we pass near Worms and
through Heidelberg, which, with IFS
ruined castle and distinguished Uni
versity will be the subject of our next
letter. o. II. BURcHARD.