The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 224 GEEMANY. house of Waiblingen or Hohenstaufen. Gmiind (12,838 inhabitants), the chief town of the valley, engages in the manufacture of jewellery. A railway runs up the valley as far as Aalen (5,928 inhabitants), a town of iron works. The Neckar, below its junction with the Rems, flows past Marhach (2,241 inhabitants), the birthplace of Schiller, whose house has been converted into a Schiller Museum. Near it the Murr joins the Neckar on the right, the principal town on it being Backnang (4,923 inhabitants). Besigheim (2,
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 224 GEEMANY. house of Waiblingen or Hohenstaufen. Gmiind (12,838 inhabitants), the chief town of the valley, engages in the manufacture of jewellery. A railway runs up the valley as far as Aalen (5,928 inhabitants), a town of iron works. The Neckar, below its junction with the Rems, flows past Marhach (2,241 inhabitants), the birthplace of Schiller, whose house has been converted into a Schiller Museum. Near it the Murr joins the Neckar on the right, the principal town on it being Backnang (4,923 inhabitants). Besigheim (2,441 inhabitants), believed to be of Roman origin, is situate at the mouth of the Enz, which rises in the Black Forest. The hot springs of JFildbad (2,700 inhabitants) rise in the main valley of the Enz, whilst Leonherg (2,231 inhabitants), the native town of Schelling, and Weil der Stadt (1,765 inhabitants), that of Kepler, occupy side valleys. Freudenstadt (5,237 inhabitants), farther to the south, is the only town of Wiirttemberg which lies beyond the watershed separating the basin of the Neckar from that of the Rhine. It was founded in the sixteenth century by Austrian and Moravian refugees. Maulbronn, with its famous abbey, lies on the hills between the Neckar and the Rhine. Near it are several colonies of French refugees, who settled in the country in 1698 and 1699. At Lanffen (3,418 inhabitants), thus named after the rapids formed by the Neckar, that river emerges upon the plain in which rise the houses and factories of Heilhronn (21,208 inhabitants), the largest town of Northern Wiirttemberg. The ancient city owes its name of ' Healing Burn ' to a spring over which a church has been built. It is a busy manufacturing centre, with sugar-mills, paper-mills, iron works, and jewellers' shops. Much of the wine produced in the vicinity is converted into 'champagne.' Weinshcrg (2,186 inhabitants) is near it. Heilbronn is famous for its fine trees and flowers, and much of the pro
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