Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-01
ROYALTY'S WOOING PLACE.
Schwarzburg in Thuringia an Idea.
Spot for Lovers.

The marriage engagement of Hol-
lands young queen has given anotne-
touch of romance to a most romantic
spot, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. Schwarzburg, in Thur
ingia. where Queen WiThelmina apd
Prince Heinrich of Mecklanhurg-
Schwerin became plighted lovers. is
just the sort of Il place for a royal
wooing. a castled hill. abrupt and
lordly. with a loop of sill
Yer river around its base. and
all about it. as far as the eye
can reach. vast and beautiful and
historic forest. such is Schwdfz5urg
tie summer residence of the princes Of
SCilwarzburg Rudolstadt and TIE scene
II this latest royal romance. There is
40 more beautiful forest il the world
than the Thuringerwald. ami there is
no more beautiful part of it than the
lovely SchwarZa valley with its crown
ing beauty. the hill and castle of
Schwarzburg. 1t is a place of consid-
cradle resort: famed and popular
among Germans. and for this reason
too. appropriate for the popular and
rather democratic young queen to have
had her romance in.
The hill on which the castle stands
has room enough on its flat top for
quite little cluster of hotels and
boarding houses. and these are always
full to Overlooking in the pleasant
season of the year The best of these
houses. the Weisser Hirsch white
Stag) which also plays its part in this
pretty royal story. is a most romanti-
cally situated hotel. Like the castle
itself. it is built on the very edge OF
the hill. which here falls away craG
like and prccipitous. in an almost
sheer descent to the river. 255 feet be-
low. Its back piazza and garden COM
mand a glorious view of the Schwarza
valley with it's enclosing. forest-clal
hills, vast sweeps of verdure as far as
eye can reach; while the immediate
foreground gives the final touch of the
picturesque to the scene: strip of
marvellously lush river border. a part
of the princes park. with his deer
grazing on it in full sight of the gazer
above. In any light. wondrously
lovely picture: at sunset. or with the
moonlight falling softly over it. sight
! out of dreamland, indescribably fair.
The sylvan effects in this ThurinSer-
valid are peculiarly beautiful. The at
mosphere, as all over Germany is
moist and inclined to be gray. 1t is
what the artists mean by their word
atmosphere medium not too clear
which softens distance and the colors
of nature. giving to them tone"
Then, too, forest that has been a
forest always. as has this Thuringer-
valid. has an atmosphere of that
also. an atmosphere quite its
own: fullness and splendor of inn
memorial perfection. of trunks left to
grow to their own full girth. of leaf
age never touched except by the
changes of nature. And then this
Thuringerwald has historic associations
to enhance it. Athwart its greatest
length which is from east to west. and
about ninety miles. runs the REM
steig. one of the original highways of
Germany. dating back to earliest
times: and with all the centuries since
the forest has had its suggestive con-
| nections. This castle of Schwarzburg
was one of Charlemagne' outposts.
From its point of vantage the great
| kaiser may have looked down on the
| beautiful scene that the tourist of to-
| day admires-while he dimes.
| Yes. for the beautiful picture has its
, material side. 1t wouldn't be German