The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-04-30
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In the Old Worid-Arnstadt and Its Sur.
roundibEs.
Special Correspondence d The Inkiltgaexr.
A%RSsrADr,' April, 1SS4.-A half hours
walk on tho Plane chausse brought me to
a bend In the road, where I stopped,
charmed by the beauty OF tho landscape.
The morning was magnificent. Tho sun
was shining brilliantly and just warm
enough to quicken everything into life and
deaden nothing. The grass was ~greening,
tho buds were bursting, winter had de.
parted, spring was here. Every bird in
Inc forest seemed greeting me with his
morning song and Gang ne'er 30 sweetly,,
Now and then a peasant woman passed me,
oareheaded, on her way to market, or an
old Bauer greeted me in the polite way OF
me- country. Boys, too came by, their hats
iull Of violets gathered on the mountain
eide, and they whietled merrily, insured
by the perfection OF nature. At nv back
rose al abruptly as though I were n wan.
derer> in Switzerland, the "Hochwald"
az my ieit lay the city on
times, could imagine the s%entinels pac.
Ing or the watch in the tower asleep at bis
post scarcely yet awakened. Below me Law
tho valley a picture Of tho ideal. It's fields
were masred by no fencing, It was I'M.
broken nature. Through 1t meandered an
%crookedly as the river Of Phrgzia, the
Gena-notl large enough to be majestic, but
omantic, and the sWaying Of the willows
mufmuring Of the waters. Far across in
the other side OF the valley, the mountain
broke forth once more. Here and there in
tho brown roads leading to lis summit /
could sec an ox.cart OF a wagon-some
Peasant going. to his mornings labor.
AND on my right, away across at tho other
enl Of the glen, beyond villages, with
winch all Germany is dotted,
appeared the snow.capped hills Of Thur.
inca. 0
SURROUNDINGS OF ARSsripr.
II 1t be true, as has often been observed,
that the character OF a people depends
greatly upon the beauty OF their land and
nome, tho Inhabitants Of Arnstadt might
rival many. These surroundings have lured
many, many guests within lis borders,
From me oldest times it has enjoyed the
!epuiation OF q summer resort because Of
its climate, air and suburbs, and since
1851 L has been famous for its salt baths.
as IN that year this important property was
discovered, and all through the city houses
tell the story. It is OF some interest as a
manufacturing centre, and its seed culture
ls one Of moment. History gives it foupda.
hon as tho year $50. and It might be called
tue entrance to "ancient ciyilization,n
Rome was then lettering on her aged limbs
and about to iall,- The barbarous tribes
had managed her; Alaric had sat in her
temples and Athla of the Hnns
had made her tremble. Her myth.
o!ogy and temples of h~eathendom" had
given way to Christianity scarcely more
than a century before when Constantine
held her sceptre: the Eastern and Western
kingdoms, "Byzan,ium" and the "E.ernaI
C!ty' were not yet reunited and were ruled
by separate kings. Odoscer and the Hermit
were still quiet in their northern homes
and only dreaming perhaps OF their march
elx and thirty years after. Between Il ali
Ignorant OF it all and away from II ali
King Merowig built his city on the hanks
OF the beautiful Gera.
n the number Of Its sights, It has scarce
llsiuli share, yet there are some over which
one may tarry for dsys, and the %lnountaius
are never bare OF charm. The trench
ABOUT tho walls once filed with
water and 9 "Red Sea" to all murau.
ders, has given up lis warlike
purpose, and is either filled or a Towering
garden. The towers which oncs Sheltered
the sentinels retiring from their beat on
Inc wall c v likewise lost their siqui6.
canoe, and are occupied by peaceful fami.
iles who care nothing for shot and shell.
Inc only castellan Of the old "schloss'
where the Counts Of by-gone centuries held
their rsvelries and assembled their attend.
ants Tor tho deer hunt in the mountains by
is a harmless one who does nothing bnt
picture its ancient spicudor. The Walter
scott OF the Fatherland, Willibard Alexis,
has chosen hero his home and built his
Abbotsford in q city the wizard OF the
North" himself would have rambled for
days. That sprightly old authorizes, Mar.
lit, who has written many q work to please
the Saxon, has built her villa on the
mountain side, and from her room can
overlook tho city below.
A CELEBRATED CHURCH.
Celebrated through all Europe is the
"Liebirauen Kirche, built about go. Its
erection continued through two "ages oil