03204cam a22003373u 4500 77458 UtSlPG 20260610134808.0 m cr n 260607r20251829utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 DB Kyselak, Josef, 1799-1831 Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, 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) Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-12-14 Raymond Papworth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) 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.) Originally published: Wien: Anton Pichler, 1829 Austria -- Description and travel Berchtesgaden (Germany) -- Description and travel https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011408643/Home https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77458 118178 118178