The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-28
THROUGH FAIR
SWABIAN LAND.
Wurtemberg From the Summit
of the HOhenstaufen.
Garden Spot of Germany and Its Many
Charms for Touris.s-The Relics Of
the Once Powerful Rulers.
Most people allow that an autumn holiday

Most people allow that an autumn holiday
may be quite as profitably spent on horse
cycle or on foot as in stutfy railway car
riage, or in stufier seven-by-nine hotel
rooms. As to the latter Inconvenience the
great caravansaries seem fuller Of diminu-
tive sleeping quarters than the quiet country
inns hereabOuts. At such small places, too,
one gets far better acquainted, not only with
the cooking and wines of the country, but
also with the people thereof. than at the
larger and more fashionable resorts, where
are found higher prices, initiative cooking,
falsiied wines, the sight of pretty much the
same travellers in each place and not the
sight of the stay homers. =.
But after all, the physical gain of such a
holiday is the main object, and is much more
readily assured out of doors than in doors.
With this in view, writes a correspondent
from Goepping to the Cleveland Leader,
it is no wonder that Germany counts just
how many hOrsemen, many. cyclists, many
trampers, getting such views, impressions
and physical betterment TO fall only TO the
lot of such industrious travellers.
For them there are countless ways and by.
ways leading through the nest delightful
and romantic parts of the Faiherland. Each
province has its own loyalistS, each path its
lovers. But as most tourists find their way
to the capital, so it may be taken as con-
venient starting point Tor the majority Of
Germans as well as foreigners, inclined to u
cheaper and more independent, if slower,
mode of travelling than by rail. :.
One of the most attractive round trips
from Berlin and back to Berlin is as follows
Across Brandenhurg to Halle, where the
Congress of Socialists is about to- be held,
then through lovely Thuringia, passing by
Weimar Erfurt G0tha and Eisenach; then
sOutherly by kissingen to Bamberg, Nurem-
berg, Regensburg and Munich.
If the Bavarian highlands be not visited
the traveller finds his way east to Augs burg,
north to DOnauwoeIth, Noerdiingen, and
possibly Ruthe nburg; then over into Wur-
temberg, where the roads are better than in
Bavaria. Here lie will likely take zigzag
course by Halle and
GMUEND TO STUTTGART,
Then to Tuebinger and Um. then to Sig
maringen and Constance. From this GEN.
trail point it is easy enough to get into Aus
tria or Switzerland, which countries also
border the Lake OF Constance; but if the
trip be confined to Germany, two roads lead
northward through Baden. One is by way
of the Rhine. the other through the Black
Forest. At all events Strasburg and Heidel-
berg are pretty sure to be visited, and then
come the Rhenish cities, with q chain Of
charming castles and ruins, until finally
Berlin probable course would be by West
phala, Brunswick. the Harz Mountains,
Madgeburg and Potsdam.
Perhaps the most felicitous feature of such
an independent mode Of getting about is
thatmany places are seen, and seen thorough
ly. too. which would be impossible to the
ordinary traveller. 1t may. indeed, be that
the tourist is too poor for riding on any
kind OF saddle or seat, but he Is not too poor
for journeying afOot. Ii he claim that.
/ 70 fE.rt H.. =,
lazy.
Few among these peculiar experiences in
out of the way places can remain longer in
memory than visit 20 the mountain of
HohenStaufen, on the summit of which once
stood the castle of that imperial race. 1t is
long pull up from the pleasant town of
Gmuend, and longer yet from Waiblingen.
another seat of the Hohenstaufens; from
the name of the town comes their
party distinction, Waiblinger, or Ghibel-
lines, as we say after the Italian transla-
tion rather than the German original.
There comes reward, however. to the
mountain climber, and if the hour be that OF
sunset it is indeed reward, for the view
from the summit is one of the most spread
out and splendid imaginable. Fancy how,
hundreds of years ago. the old Hohen-
staufen Emperors looked out upon this tre-
mendous Wurtemberg domain, their most
ancient Inheritance, and then thought OF
that far greater domain, theirs as we'll, and
extending over half continent. Now there
is not one stone left upon another to mark
their great castle, and the bare denuded
summit has become the prey of the racing
winds. Once more nature asserts her rights.
They we're usurped indeed but for a mo-
ment in the course of time, and
SHE is AGAIN SUPREME.
The greatest man, the proudest race, exists
but for an instant, so 1t seems, and then
passes away. But the river rolls on and the
mountains stand fast.
If the course Of the worlds history would