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Title: The eastern Alps : including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : Karl Baedeker
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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(2300), command-ing a fine view. Excursions (guide, JSim. Lechner). The G-leinalpe (p. 370) may beascended without difficulty from Knittelfeld in 4i/2-5 hrs. We follow thehigh-road to the N. to (i M.) Gohernitz, turn to the right at a finger-post,then (»/4 hr.) to the left, where the road divides, to (3/4 hr.) Glein (Gindler),from which we ascend the ravine of the Glein to the (3 hrs.) Alpen-Wirthshaus (see p. 370). Attractive excursion through the Ingering-Thal, via (7 M.) Bischoffeld(Wegscheider), and past the handsome chateau of Wasserherg, to (6 M.)the picturesque little Ingering-See (3975), at the foot of the precipitousHoch-E,eichart (7930). Refreshments at the foresters, IV4M. on this sideof the lake, from which the Reichart may be ascended in 4 hrs. via theBrandstddter Alpe and the Brandstddter Thorl (6615; pass to the Liesing-thal), comp. p. 389. The valley of the Mur now expands to its greatest width. 37^2 M.Zeltweg (2220; Inn), with extensive iron-works. On the right bank
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)S3 Elmaeter M.K-aiPX ^DebesXeif)Zig JUDENBURG. VIIL Route 76. 425 of the Mur, 3 M. to the S., is the village of Weisskirchen; and4^2 M. to the N.W. is Fohnsdorf^ with extensive coal-mines, someof which are upwards of 800 deep. 4272 M. Judenburg (2380; ^Post or Krone, with carriages forhire; *Brand; Frank, with garden; *Danzmeyer^s Restaurant, atthe railway-station, with rooms), a very ancient town (4039 inhab.),once a Celtic settlement (/tiwnwm, from idun, a high hill), situatedon a height on the right bank of the Mur, at the foot oi the SeethalAlps, has been almost entirely rebuilt since a fire in 1841. In thePlatz is a fountain witli a large marble basin. Here, too, rises theRbmerihurm, erected in 1509, with its Gothic portal (fine viewfrom the top; 10 kr.). In front of the Jesuits Church rises a columnin memory of the plague, erected in 1717. The interesting Churchof St. Magdalena In the suburb of that name, dating from the 9thcent., contains fine stained glass and a carved pulpit

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