Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Name: Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home — Place XXI. Kronthäl
Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

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“Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home — Place XXI. Kronthäl”, published in 1841, is a work by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. It explores elements such as Konistein, Falkenstein and peasant.

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ I like this story better than that in Schiller's ballad of the "Lord of Falkenstein." One does not like to mar such a scene as this with the spectre of a treacherous and cruel lover, or to remember, amid this rural peace and beauty, that there are sweet deceived young mothers, whose spirits brood over the graves of the children they in madness murdered. And who that has seen Retzsch's exquisite sketch of the peasant-girl of Falkenstein can forget it? We were there just before sunset. The little stone-built village lay in the deep shadow of the woodland steep which is crowned by the castle. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ Falkenstein village, close under the castle, looked like a brood of chickens huddled under its mother's wing. Kronberg and its towers were in shadow; but the vast plain beyond was bathed in light, and the Main and the Rhine were sparkling in the distance. All around me was a scene of savage Nature in her stern strength, all beyond of her motherly plentiful production. I counted eighteen villages; a familiar eye would probably have seen twice as many more. They are not easily distinguished from the earth, with which their colour blends harmoniously. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ The Germans never stray beyond the gravelled walks around the house. Such quietude would kill us, so we appease our love and habit of movement with a daily donkey ride among the Taunus Hills or a walk through the lovely woodland paths. The famous castles of Kronberg (Crown-hill) , Konistein (King's-stone) , and Falkenstein are within a reasonable walk. Konistein has been an immense fortress, and its story is interwoven with the annals of the country. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ I am not willing to lose an opportunity of seeing the inside of a cottage; hers was all that is habitable of the old castle, and is the neatest and most comfortable peasant's dwelling I have seen. The lord's kitchen was converted into the peasant's salon, where there was a good stove, antique chairs, a bureau, pictures, and a crucifix. In the kitchen I saw a very well filled dresser. The good woman was eager to hear of America ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ However, I soon found, by a little ragged boy, that they were loitering unharmed about the old tower, and I got them down before they had time to add to the American illustrations of Konistein.
To-day we have been to Falkenstein. It is one of the highest summits of the Taunus, near those loftiest pinnacles, the Fellberg and Auld Konig. There is a pretty story of a knight having won a daughter of Falkenstein by making a carriage road in a single night up to the castle-wall. The most sensible miracle I ever heard being required of a lover. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ The perceptible effect is a genial warmth and a alight moisture. We hear marvellous stories of its cures. It makes the deaf bear and the dumb speak; and, in short, does what all other baths do if you believe their believing champions. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ The Frankfort gentry come out every day with their children and servants, and seem to find quite pleasure enough in sitting down at a table before the door and working worsted, knitting, smoking, drinking wine and Seltser-waler, sipping coffee and eating Mademoiselle Zimmermann's cakes, which are none of the most delicious. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ One rare advantage that we have here is a physician of excellent sense, and of a most kind and winning disposition; another is, that we see the manners of the people of the country without the slightest approach to foreign fashions or intermixture of foreign society. ”

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home… (1841)

“ A labourer in haying and harvesting, the busiest season of the year, is paid one florin 12 kreutzers a day (fifty cents) , and finds himself, and works earlier and later than our people. If he works for several days consecutively for one employer, he is allowed a trifle more as drink-geld. ”

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