NOTICE TO THIS EDITION. THE Editor of the Handbook for Travellers in South Germany requests that travellers who may, in the use of the Work, detect any faults or omissions which they can correct from personal knowledge, will have the kindness to mark them down on the spot with the date at which they were made, and communicate to him a notice of the same, favouring him at the same time with their names addressed to Mr. Murray, Albemarle Street. They may be reminded that by such communications they are not merely furnishing the means of improving the Handbook, but are contributing to the benefit, information, and comfort of future travellers in general. No attention can be paid to letters from innkeepers in praise of their own houses; and the postage of them is so onerous that they cannot be received. CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS BUYING ENGLISH BOOKS ABROAD.-By a recent Act of Parliament the introduction into England of foreign pirated Editions of the works of British authors, in which the copyright subsists, is totally prohibited. Travellers will therefore bear in mind that even a single copy is contraband, and is liable to seizure at the English Custom-house. CAUTION TO INNKEEPERS AND OTHERS. The Editor of the Handbooks has learned from various quarters that a person or persons have of late been extorting money from innkeepers, tradespeople, artists, and others, on the Continent, under pretext of procuring recommendations and favourable notices of them and their establishments in the Handbooks for Travellers. The Editor, therefore, thinks proper to warn all whom it may concern, that recommendations in the Handbooks are not to be obtained by purchase, and that the persons alluded to are not only unauthorised by him, but are totally unknown to him. All those, therefore, who put confidence in such promises, may rest assured that they will be defrauded of their money without attaining their object.1850. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN GERMANY: BEING A GUIDE TO WÜRTEMBERG, BAVARIA, AUSTRIA, TYROL, SALZBURG, TO THE BLACK SEA. WITH MAP AND PLANS. SEVENTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. PARIS: A. & W. GALIGNANI AND CO.; STASSIN AND XAVIER. 1855. 846. d. 31. The right of Translation is reserved. PREFACE. THE plan and origin of the Handbook have been sufficiently explained in the Preface to the volume on Northern Germany. The countries described in the following pages have been much less trodden by English travellers, and more rarely described by English authors; many of the routes, indeed, are scarcely alluded to in any work in our language. For this reason the writer has bestowed even more labour upon this than on the preceding volume, with the desire of rendering it as accurate a guide as possible. The work might, indeed, have appeared much sooner but for the additional care which he thought advisable to bestow upon it. The Author feels that, in spite of his endeavours, he can scarcely hope to have attained perfect accuracy; and he has therefore only to rely on the indulgence of his readers to excuse, as far as possible, the mistakes which must necessarily creep into such a work, and to repeat his request, that all who use the work will do him the favour to transmit to him (through his publisher) notices of any errors which they may detect, subjoining, if possible, their names to such communications, in order to authenticate them. The very useful and obliging hints and corrections already forwarded to him by many persons who have made notes on the Handbook for Northern Germany, will enable him to improve the new edition of that volume most materially; but, in many instances, it would have added to their value had they been accompanied by the name of the person communicating them.-1837. The German translation, with improvements, of the Handbook, by Baedeker, Coblenz, has furnished the Editor with many corrections. The present edition has been much altered and enlarged. The buildings, pictures, and sculptures, ancient, mediæval, and modern, at Munich, Nuremberg, Ratisbon, Ulm, and other principal cities of Bavaria and Würtemberg, have been more fully described. To enable the traveller |