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Walks.
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jection of the rock, which you descry from a considerable
distance.*) The hamlet of Schriesheim, which extends
itself to the highroad from the foot {of the mountain,
far into the valley, whick contains several considerable
papermills. They also work here a mine of sulphureous
spar. Schriesheim is two leagues distant from Heidelberg
and contains a population of 2750 inhabitants. (Inns:
1) Vie drei Kiinige (3 Kings), the Lowen (Lion), Pfalz
(Palatinate). Laterally, towards the plain (2 leagues
from Heidelberg), there lies Ladenburg (inhabitants 2400),
venerable by its age, known already to the Romans
by the name of Jrupodunum , evidently the oldest town
of the whole country; Romans having been settled here
is documented by many traces of ancient times, such as:
votive altars**), coins a. t. like, found here, especially
by a Roman bath, discovered (1766) in the field before
the town (near the Rosenhof), which is described and
copied minutely in the second volume of the transactions
of Mannheim. This bath , furnished with a superstruction
by Charles Theodor, was unfortunately so totally de-
molished, that not a wrack of it is left. The town itself,
which had got under the dominion of the kings of the
Franks, after the Romans had been dislodged, lapsed to
the bishoprick of Worms, and then to the electorate
Palatine, is distinguished by some other old buildings,
but especially by the church of St. Gallus, with its two
Gothic steeples; it was built in the beginning of the
14th century. It was probably at Ladcnburg, where the
*) Upon the whole, it is more advisable and convenient,
to ascend the mount of olives hence, t. is, from Schriesheim.
**) Such a stone may be seen in the antiquarium Creu-
zerianum of the university-library, at Heidelberg. Other an-
tiquities are to be seen in the antiquarium of Mannheim.
83
jection of the rock, which you descry from a considerable
distance.*) The hamlet of Schriesheim, which extends
itself to the highroad from the foot {of the mountain,
far into the valley, whick contains several considerable
papermills. They also work here a mine of sulphureous
spar. Schriesheim is two leagues distant from Heidelberg
and contains a population of 2750 inhabitants. (Inns:
1) Vie drei Kiinige (3 Kings), the Lowen (Lion), Pfalz
(Palatinate). Laterally, towards the plain (2 leagues
from Heidelberg), there lies Ladenburg (inhabitants 2400),
venerable by its age, known already to the Romans
by the name of Jrupodunum , evidently the oldest town
of the whole country; Romans having been settled here
is documented by many traces of ancient times, such as:
votive altars**), coins a. t. like, found here, especially
by a Roman bath, discovered (1766) in the field before
the town (near the Rosenhof), which is described and
copied minutely in the second volume of the transactions
of Mannheim. This bath , furnished with a superstruction
by Charles Theodor, was unfortunately so totally de-
molished, that not a wrack of it is left. The town itself,
which had got under the dominion of the kings of the
Franks, after the Romans had been dislodged, lapsed to
the bishoprick of Worms, and then to the electorate
Palatine, is distinguished by some other old buildings,
but especially by the church of St. Gallus, with its two
Gothic steeples; it was built in the beginning of the
14th century. It was probably at Ladcnburg, where the
*) Upon the whole, it is more advisable and convenient,
to ascend the mount of olives hence, t. is, from Schriesheim.
**) Such a stone may be seen in the antiquarium Creu-
zerianum of the university-library, at Heidelberg. Other an-
tiquities are to be seen in the antiquarium of Mannheim.