Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 415, May, 1850Various
History
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 415, May, 1850
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
The Bock is a wooded eminence near Paderborn, where an inn was built. To
obtain a fine view from the inn, the wood was lately cut through, and
thus the buildings have become visible from Neuhaus. The village or
_dorf_ is a newly-founded country house, or rather farm-house, with its
appurtenances—_Scoticè_, a town.
3. “When people see, in the Roman field, houses with large windows;
when a broad road is made through that field, which shall not be
finished till the good times come, then shall come heavy times.”
In the Roman field, on the high road to Erwitte, the Thuringian Railway
was begun in 1847, and a terminus, the buildings of which have very
large windows, has been laid down on the spot. The works have been, from
the necessity of the times, suspended for the present. See Jaspers, No.
1, and Spielbähn, No. 3.
4. “When barley is sown on the Bock, then is the time close at hand.
Then shall the enemy be in the land, and kill and devastate
everything. Men will have to go seven leagues to find an acquaintance.
The town of Paderborn shall have eight heavy days, during which the
enemy lies there. On the last day, the enemy shall give up the town to
plunder. But let every man carry his most valuable property from the
ground floor to the garret; for the enemy will not have time, even to
untie his shoestrings, so near will succour be.”
In the summer of 1848, the first attempt was made to grow barley on the
Bock, a cold, high-lying district.
5. “The enemy will try to bombard the town from the Liboriberg, (a
hill close to Paderborn); but only one ball (or shell) shall hit, and
set on fire a house in the Kampe. The fire, however, shall soon be
extinguished.
6. “The French shall come as friends. French cavalry with shining
breastplates (cuirassiers) shall ride in at the Westergate, and tie
their horses to the trees in the Cathedral close. At the Giersthor,
(another gate) soldiers with gray uniforms, faced with light blue,
shall come in. But they will only look into the town, and then
immediately withdraw. On the Bock stands a great army, with double
insignia, (or marks—possibly the two cockades, Imperial German and
Prussian, now worn by the Prussians,) whose muskets are piled in
heaps.
7. “The enemy shall fly towards Salzkotten, and towards the heath. In
both places a great battle shall be fought, so that people shall wade
in blood to the ankles. The pursuers from the town must take care not
to cross the Alme bridge; for not one of those who cross it shall
return alive.
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