Show I 1 URI N T k A I 1 ovum Q ell lb 1 j 1 4 1 V MR RP f r W a k az ac al clear water runs through this freiburg street Pr prepared Oldred by the Nations 1 geographic society washington D r service EMPRO gateway to the black fth forest of germin germany y not only thrills rills tourists with its quaintness but Is a city of historical monuments many of the monuments are churches but numerous lay monuments also lank flank FrIe burgs streets martin Wald Waid the geographer who wis tile the first to put the name america on a map was a frel frei burger and his ancestral dwelling not only still stands but flourishes martins father was a prosperous butcher who apparently held views unpopular in germany even then for lie was known as king of the jews and met a violent death the family were at the time living in what Is now no 9 Lowen strasse then the pikes head house and martin was a student at the newly established albert ludwig university later when Waldsee in and the world map on which for the first time the newly discovered western world was called america became famous neighbors probably remembered that a family of that name had lived on their street but it was wag only in recent years that a tablet was placed over the door of the little two story yellow house stating that here from 1480 to 1492 dwelt martin Wald who la in his big famed world atlas of 1507 bestowed on the continent of america the name it bears it Is a beauty shop now with a shiny brass dish sign of the hairdresser swinging over its 10 door no one looking at its positively prissy front would would dream that it had weathered the storms of years the whale house why whale no one seems to know Is probably the most spectacular of all freibergs Frei burgs lay monuments it was built by kaiser maximilian 1 I but only three years after its completion he died in 1519 save for a brief month when maxi grandson visited freiburg it yas was never occupied by royalty but the place has been meticulously kept up and now one of the towns largest savings banks it stands all warm red and glIt glittering lefing gilt a classical example of the dwelling of a prosperous medieval vs noble oldest inn in germany the bear inn Is generally conceded to be the oldest inn in germany there it Is a deep yellow three story stone building with a hig high gh dormer windowed roof and maroon shutters set slightly ed edgewise ellse and bulging a little with the bend of the street but natty withal and rather snap snapping plim its lingers fingers to the odd years that tire are chalked up against it the inn appears on freibergs Frei burgs town records as a going concern in 1390 and since that date the names of its proprietors are all on file this Is something of a miracle when you con consider gider that the poor old bear has kept his ground with his back against the city will wall and his big nose uncomfortably near the cites roost most vulnerable gate and that he has survived the onslaught of austrian french and swedish armies all old buildings carry their age well though and are singularly lacking in a depressing museum atmosphere they are kept up and painted and above all lived in about them hangs a jaunty air of character and usefulness such as you see in sturdy old people who refuse to be shelved the Kauf haus merchants hall in the Munster platz an amazing example of late gothic in bright red and gold since it was begun in 1524 has been a trading center for the schwarzwald farmers the flat faced yellow kornhaus or granary across the square with its enormous step gables and its red Ir trimmings Immings wa was 9 completed the year after john ca cabot hot visited north america today as always it Is the place where the market people store their wares the mellow buff building beside bebide it 14 which was old freibergs Frei burgs orphan asylum has become a very dignified fied public library freiburg and the surrounding country lius has the he church to thank for industries as well as for historic bonu ments with the spread of christianity ty monasteries sprang up all over ohp iha schwarzwald now although tile the j thine rhine valley plain Is known us as the th garden of germany the schwarzwald Is in nn lin ep entirely different category g bordering the streams the slopes are steep timber covered and not conducive to agriculture the ahe flatter uplands as in our own new england states were once ice covered and are consequently stony and not hl highly aly productive that the land was not capable of supporting a I 1 large arge population was early recognized by a law prohibiting the splitting up of farms among the descendants of their owners in those days the land used to and still does go down to a single owner leaving the rest of the family to shift for themselves famous for its industries soon the surplus population scenting a market for foodstuffs as well as for labor settled about the monasteries in swarms and the monks found themselves saddled with an unemployment problem which th they solved so go successfully that in time schwarzwald industries became famous the world over the occurrence of timber and abundant clean sand started the glass industry during the age of discovery the manufacture of glass for barter with the american indians indiana fanned this industry to fever heat the exploitation of silver lead veins opened up a mining district which was fence brice important arid which hah was worked until a few years ago water power led to gem cutting the house occupied by the guild of gem cutters still stands and when marle antoinette passed through freiburg on her way to france to marry the dauphin tile burghers presented her with a thousand cut garnets today in nearby waldkirch Is a large gem cutting establishment this same water power has been used for nearly years to run Frei freibergs burgs silk thread mills forests made lumbering clock mak ing schwarzwald clocks have wooden wheels and wood woodcarving carving possible even in ID the middle ages schwarz wald timber drivers delivered their log rafts as far away as rotterdam sheep led to hat making and beav ing willows to basket and the schwarzwald peddler carrying hats and cloth baskets and clocks glassware and silver ornaments was known it at every door in europe even now handwork goes quietly along on a small scale lo in the forest as it if there had been no industrial revo revolution lutio a in their own houses men an and d women make clocks and music box boxes ces and farril furniture ture as well as funne little wooden toys that delight the heart of the most blase and hardened child vineyards in the city the monks also planted the first known vineyards ds of the district A an barback far back as the eighth century there are vague accounts ace of grape crape growing and wine linking in but ilia earliest othelah record of such duch activities comes from the holy ghost hospital in the middle of the thirteenth century the abe most distinctive note of the frieburg Fr leburg wine industry Is that som s of the vineyards are actually a part of tile the city in Colo colombe nabi park almost the center of town the sunny slopes are thriftily planted with vines that yield a particularly delicious wine and the schlossberg vineyards roll down to the Schwa bentor so that for freibergs Frei burgs romantic past which overlaps its present so neatly that the seam h hardly ardly shows it also carries us on to her claim to jollity this claim depends upon oriole ociea standard of jollity if you are a student you will I 1 find nd all that the heart could desire in tile the way of gaiety typical college gaiety that r went seem to vary a hairs breadth the world over but if you are seeking sophi sophise sl bated night life freiburg will leave you cold for it Is essentially a ally town and a place of retirement for people of considerable wealth and position the streets down to the smallest are immaculately clean and burlo during 9 the warm weather flowers are every where ln in the city gardens 1 la tile the park lk along the bressam Dr br elsam lo in the open squares the ta and ln in rioting mass clas claass ss es bt at all 11 II high sh windows 8 UP to the tiny oil the h 0 roofs |