Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-27
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ly known through the emperor's
successful experiment as a manufac.
turer and exporter; the handsome
majolicas produced at Cadinen and
publicly sold all over the world are
highly valued by connoisseurs. VII.
liam III. is also the owner of a steam
brick factory and alcohol distillery at
details of his business with the cir
cumspection of trained merchant.
The Taunus district, between the
Rhine and Maine, famous for it's ex-
cellent wine, healthful mineral waters,
beautiful scenery, and wealth of his
torical "reminiscences, is fairly studded
with castles and burghs of the most
ancient types. The most interesting
of the historical memories of this re-
gion are the traces of the ancient
Roman pallsaded moat, or fortified
boundary of the empire, which
stretched from the Rhine below Cob
lenz along the summit of the Taupus
to the Maine, and was carried on to
the Danube. On the southern side this
fortified line was backed by severA
castles, one of which, the Saalburg,
survives in part, and, after being re-
stored to it's original appearance, was
in 1901 converted into a national
museum, one of the most instructive
historical memorials of ancient Roman
life to be found north of the Alps. I'M
mediately north of the Taunus resort
OF Cronberg is Schloss Friedrichshof,
built for Empress Frederick in 1889
1897, the place where she died in
1901
Some of the royal estates have been
turned into public institutions, as, for
instance, Oranienburg, which has be-
come a seminary for female teachers,
and Nieder- r-Schoenhausen, which was
given over to the public as a park and
resort for recreation. Both are in the
vicinity of Berlin. Oranienburg was
founded in 1851 by the wife of the
Great Elector, who also established an
orphans asylum near by.
But all the emperor's landed posses-
sions outside OF the capital, be they
proud castles or modest villas. shrink
back into the second rank, as far as
historical Importance is concerned,
when compared with one small in
signilicant-if not sbabby-looking
cottage situated at half an hours dis.
! tance, by rail, from Berlin. 1t was
the favorite summer resort of Fred
erick William l., the second king of
/ Prussia f1J1p-17d0l TEyh
months every year at .his unattrac.
tive place, together with his family,
including his eldest son Frederick,
whom history afterwards was to adorn
with the glorious cognomen The Great.
The famous Grunewald. a cultivated
forest in the immediate neighborhood
of Berlin contains much-used shoot.
ing lodge, or "Jagdschloss," which was
| founded some 400 years ago by EIector
Joachim H., and stands to-day nearly
in the same shape as in 1850. Popular
superstition, which clings to several
| HohenZollern castles-the white
Lady" of the Berlin palace enjoys in
| ternational reputation-has also caught
hold of this innocent sporting abode.
Joachim had mistress, Anna Sydow.
the wife of bell-founder, of fascinat-
ing beauty, popularly called the fair
foundress." The relations between
the elector and the scheming, rapa-
cious woman became SO scandalous
that Joachim's son, Johann George.
Immediately after the formers death,
had Anna brought to Spandau and
locked up in the fortress, where she
died, after four years Imprisonment
IN 1876.
! q \. BRATTER.