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the sides and depths of which were impenetrable to my sight. This well-preserved building stood as empty as it was lonely : no castellan, no huntsman, was to be found. I sat before the great glass doors upon the steps which run around the whole terrace. Here, surrounded by mountains, over a forest-grown, dark soil, which seemed yet darker in contrast with the clear horizon of a summer night, with the glowing, starry vault above me, I sat for a long time by myself on the deserted spot, and thought I never had felt such a solitude. How sweetly, then, was I surprised by the distant sound of a couple of French horns, which at once, like the fragrance of balsam, enlivened the peaceful atmosphere. Then there awakened within me the image of a lovely being, which had retired into the background before the motley objects of these travelling-days, but which now unveiled itself more and more, and drove me from the spot back to my quarters, where I made preparations to set off as early as possible.
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thicket; so now the spark-spitting forges played their sprightly firework towards us. We passed, in the depth of night, the smelting-houses situated in the bottom of the valley, and were delighted with the strange half -gloom of these dens of plank, which are but dimly lighted by a little opening in the glowing furnace. The noise of the water, and of the bellows driven by it; the fearful whizzing and shrieking of the blast of air, which, raging into the smelted ore, stuns the hearing and confuses the senses, — drove us away, at last, to turn into
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Today, only some fragments of the palace and the gardens are preserved. They are located in the city centre of
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During the French revolutionary wars, the principality was occupied by France. In 1792, Schloss Jägersberg served as a last refuge for the princely family for a period of a half year. The palace was plundered and set on fire by French troops in May 1793, when prince Louis already left for
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decided to create a new hunting lodge, Schloss Jägersberg. He engaged
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style, which extended to the Blies river. The old castle was partially demolished to create a grand entrance to the new palace, and the remaining part was turned into stables.
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