A handbook for travellers in Southern Germany. Being a guide to Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea : including descriptions of the most frequented baths and watering places, the principal cities, their museums, picture galleries, etc., the great high roads, and the most interesting and picturesque districts also, directions for travellers and hints for tours / [Anon].

  • John Murray
Date:
1843
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Credit: A handbook for travellers in Southern Germany. Being a guide to Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea : including descriptions of the most frequented baths and watering places, the principal cities, their museums, picture galleries, etc., the great high roads, and the most interesting and picturesque districts also, directions for travellers and hints for tours / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEELIMINARY INFORMATION. f REIGNING HOUSES IN SOUTHERN GERMANY. WURTEMBERG. Raised to the regal dignity, 1806. Frederick William, present Kina^ bOrn 1781, succeeded his father, 1816. Married, 1st, 1808, Charlotte, daughter of Maximi- lian, King of Bavaria, divorced 1814. 2nd, 1816, the Grand-Duchess Catherine, daugh- ter of Emperor Paul of Russia, died 1819. 3rd, 1620, Pauline Theresa Louise, daughter of his uncle, Duke Lewis.—Has issue by 2nd marriage: 1. Mary, born 1816,married 1839, William, Hereditary Prince of the Nether- lands. 2. Sophia, bom 1818. 3rd marriage : 3. Catherine, born 1821. 4. Charles Alex- ander, Crown-Prince, born 1823. 5. Augus- tus, born 1820. AUSTRIA. Rudolph, Count of Ilabsburg in Switzer- land, is regarded as the founder of the Austrian family, and was the llrst Emperor chosen out of it (1273), He invested his sons with the territories of Austria, Styria, and Carinthia. Tlie various branches and possessions of the family became united in the person of the Emperor Maximilian, ]519—vviio likewise made one of the three fortunate marriages to which Austria is in- debted for so many of her territorial acquisi- tions, viz., with Mary, daughter of Charles tlie Bold, who brought him Burgundy, Ar- tois, and the Netherlands. The other two were that of'Philip, son of Maximilian, with Joanna of Spain, who conveyed the Spanish Monarchy to the Atistrian family, and that of Maximilian, grandson of Ferdinand, with Anne, daughter of Ladislaus, King of Hun- gary, which entailed Hungary and Bohemia on their posterity—hence tlie epigram: “ Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube; Nam qute Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus.” The male succession of the line of Ilabs- burg became extinct with Charles VI. (1740), but he was succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa, who married the Archduke Francis of Tuscany—thus uniting the branches of Habsburg and Lorraine after a separation of 1000 years. The house of Habsburg produced 19 Em- perors of Germany. Ferdinand (1st of Austria, 5th of Hunga- ry), present Empertrry born 1793, succeeded his father 1835, married 1831, Mary Anne, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardi- nia, and has no issue. BHOTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE EMPEROR. 1. MurieLouise, Duchess of Parma, h. 1791, widow of the Emperor Napoleon. 2. Mary Clementina, born 1798, married 1816, Prince Leopold of Sicily. 3. Francis Charle.s Joseph,' born 1802, mar- ried 1824, Sophy, daughter of King Maxi- milian of Bavaria, twin sister of tlie Queen of Saxony — has issue * Francis Joseph Charles, born 1830;—^ Ferdinand, born 1832r® Charles, born 1833 ;—4 Mary Anne, born 1835. 4. Marianne, born 1804. UNCLES AND AUNTS OF THE EMPEROR. 1. Ferdinand, Grand-Duke of Tuscany— d. 1824. 2. Archduke Charles, tlie celebrated ge- neral, bom 1771, married 1815, Henrietta, Princess of Nassau, and has 6 children. 3. Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Ilungan,*, born 1776, thrice married, and has 4 chil- dren. 4. Archduke John, born 1782, united by a Morganatic marriage with the daughter of the post-master of Aussce. who bears the name Freyinn von Brandhof—having de- clined the title of Countess oiTered to her in 1839. 5. Archduke Rainier, born 1783, Viceroy of Italy, married a sister of tlie King of Sar- dinia, and has 7 children. 6. Archduke Lewis, born 1784.
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