The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
THE THREE BLACK KINGS"
The Famous Tavern at Augsburg to
lie Sold at Auction.
From the Manchester Guardian.


From the Manchester Guardian.
A famous hosiery, the Drei Mohren
in Augsburg, is about to come under
the hammer. Built in the early years
of the sixteenth century by Hans Her.
wart. a wealthy merchant of Augs-
burg, and bought from him in 1860 by
Jacob Fugger, the Rothschild of his
time, the house passed through the
hands of various private owners. until
in 1923 it was bought by one Andreas
Wahl, and by him converted into a
hotel. 1t is probable that the Emperor
Charles V. stayed in the house in Her.
wert's time, and the Emperor Maxi
milan II Is known to have been Jacob
Fuggers guest there in 1866. The list
of illustrious and famous personages
who visited the house during it's palmy
days as hostelry, when Augsburg was
a much-visited town-apart from its
own attractions it was a kind of half
way house between Ulm and Munich,
and a natural hating way on the jour-
Eey to and from Switzerland and Italy
seems an endless one. and the guest
books of the hotel. which have been
carefully preserved, must be very in
teresting reading. In 1892 Kaiser
Francis II STAYED there with his wife.
Maria Theresa.
In 1901 Napoleon stopped at Augs-
burg, and many of his generals stayed
at the Drei Mohren, Napoleon himself
occupying the episcopal residence. The
Empress Josephine was a guest in 1906
on her way to Munich, whittier Napo-
leon had summoned her. Late in De-
cember OF the same year the Bavarian
Maj. Won Hausman signed the guest
book and opposite his name appears
the statement that he came ito &C.
cupy our free town in the name of the
Prince of Bavaria" On March 3. 1906.
the formal delivery of the town to the
Bavarian commissioners was celebrated
by great banquet at the hotel. In
1910 the Archduchess Marie Louise
stopped there with great suite on her
journey to Paris to supplant the di-
Vorced Josephine. During the later
Napoleonic wars there was much Jour-
ncying of soldiers and diplomats back
ward and forward through Augsburg.
and we find in the guest books of the
Drei Mohren the names of Metternicn
Castelreagh, Canning, Wellington, Tai
ieyrand and others entered on their
journey to the congress of Vienna.
Soon, however. the stream was turned
in the opposite direction, and there
was great journeying of the notables Of
France, where Napoleon had reappear-
ed and was showing very scant respect
for the DEGREES of Congress.
After NaDoleon's final fall the Drei
Mohren sheltered Jerome Fouche (who
signed himself Duke of Otranto)
Count Walewski. Gustavus Wasa and
others of the great Corsican's proteges
who had shared in his fall. In the fol-
lowing decades we find names whose
fame Is of different kind-Fauerbach
LlmartiEe. Walter Scott, Paganini,
Spontini, INLAND. In 1856. on Aug. "a,
the German federation was dissolved in
Augsburg, and here again the Drei
Mohren was the scene of the formal
tiles. This was Augsburg's last APP
pearance as a "Weltstadt." and since
then, though the Drei Mohren has ex-
tended its hospitality on several occa-
sions both to the old Emperor William
and his son, who as crown prince was
Immensely beloved in Augsburg as, in
deed. throughout Bavaria, and whose
visits were always made occasions OF
great rejoicing, both Augsburg and its
famous Cashier have suffered eclipse.
Augsburg Is no longer q great place