Author: Karl Baedeker
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ISBN: 9781331921578
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Excerpt from Southern Germany (Wurtemberg and Bavaria): Handbook for Travellers The Handbook for Southern Germany, which is now issued for the twelfth time, is designed to assist the traveller in planning his tour and disposing of his time to the best advantage, to render him as far as possible independent of the services of guides, commissionnaires, and hotel-keepers, and to enable him the more thoroughly to enjoy and appreciate the objects of interest he meets with on his tour. The Handbook is based on the personal observation of the Editor, and most of the country described has been repeatedly explored by him with a view to procuring the latest possible information; but, as many of the data in the Handbook relate to matters which are constantly undergoing alteration, he will highly appreciate any corrections or suggestions with which travellers may favour him. Those already received, which in many instances have proved most useful, he gratefully acknowledges. Hotel-bills, with annotations, are specially useful. The Handbook is divided into Two Sections (I. Wurtemberg; II. Bavaria), each of which may be separately removed from the volume by cutting the gauze backing visible on opening the book at the requisite pages. Linen covers for these sections may be obtained through any bookseller. The Alpine tourist will find the mountainous districts more fully described in the Handbook to the Eastern Alps. For Baden, Alsace, Lorraine, and Rhenish Bavaria the traveller is referred to the Handbook to the Rhine. The Maps and Plans, on which special care has been bestowed, will, it is hoped, render material service to the traveller in planning his tour. Distances by road and railway are given approximately in English miles; but in hilly districts they are often expressed by the time in which they can be accomplished by average walkers, kilometre is approximately = g English mile; 8 km.= 5 M. Heights are given in the text in English feet, on the maps in metres(1 Engl. ft.= 0.3048 metre = 0.971 Prussian ft.), and the Populations in accordance with the latest census. Hotels. The Editor has endeavoured to enumerate, not only the first-class hotels, but also others of more modest pretensions, which may be safely selected by the voyageur en garon with little sacrifice of comfort and considerable saving of expenditure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.