Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…
Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien by Joseph Kyselak is a travelogue written in the early 19th century. It offers romantic, vividly detailed sketches from a long pedestrian journey across Austrian and Bavarian regions, mingling landscape description, castle ruins, folklore, and wry travel incidents to entice lovers of nature, history, and adventure. The opening of the book lays out a frank preface: driven by
love of nature, the narrator travels light and mostly alone with a wolfhound, intent on sketching remote Alpine places rather than well-known cities. He departs Vienna by carriage across the barren Steinfeld toward the Semmering, notes Wiener Neustadt and Schottwien, admires the dramatic ruin of Klam (with a recalled 1809 clash led by a patriotic priest), and then crosses into Styria. In the Mirzatal he observes pastoral richness and old fortresses, then thoroughly explores the vast ruin of Kapfenberg—narrowly avoiding a fall, poking through vaults and passages—before taking in a sweeping view from St. Maria Loretto as a storm arrives. Reaching Bruck, he rafts down the swift Mur to Graz, braving hazardous weirs that drench the passengers, and arrives exhilarated. A brisk portrait of Graz follows—its Johanneum museum, the gentler, gardened Schlossberg, promenades, and local dress—before he departs at dawn. The section closes with a visit to the ruin of Gösting, a hunter’s vignette, a tragic local legend, and the hint of an underground passage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kyselak, Josef, 1799-1831 |
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| Title | Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, : nebst einer romantisch pittoresken Darstellung mehrerer Ritterburgen und ihrer Volkssagen, Gebirgsgegenden und Eisglätscher auf dieser Wanderung, unternommen im Jahre 1825 von Joseph Kyselak. (1/2) |
| Alternate Title | Skizzen einer Fussreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, : nebst einer romantisch pittoresken Darstellung mehrerer Ritterburgen und ihrer Volkssagen, Gebirgsgegenden und Eisglätscher auf dieser Wanderung, unternommen im Jahre 1825 von Joseph Kyselak. (1/2) |
| Original Publication | Wien: Anton Pichler, 1829. |
| Credits | Raymond Papworth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | DB: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Subject | Austria -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Berchtesgaden (Germany) -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77458 |
| Release Date | Dec 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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