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however, very few loving subjects were 
actually burnt, because at that time te 
mass of the people cared nothing for re- 
ligion, but set a high value on their lives. 
In many of the “German states the in- 
habitants had to change their religion 
several times before settling down; 
the Wtrttemberg rulers were consistently 
Protestant, with the exception of a cer- 
tain Duke Carl Alexander, who about 
1750 proposed to introduce Catholicism | 
into Old Wurttemberg again. But by 
that time the people ‘had no desire to 
change, and had got beyond the stage of 
allowing their rulers to choose their re- 
ligion for them, so that there certainly 
would have been a revolution had not 
the Duke’s plans been nipped in the bud 
by his sudden death—whether natural or 
artificial is uncertain. 
Of the territory gained by Wurttem- 
berg in 1806 and 1810, almost all had 
belonged to Catholic rulers, and the 
new king wisely refrained from courting 
revolution or official apoplexy by trying 
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Photo by B. H. Buxton 
AT ALTENSTEIG, ON THE NAGOLD RIVER 
to make his recently acquired subjects 
Protestants, and Catholics they have re- 
mained to this day. 
Human relics of the stone, bronze, and 
early iron ages are scarce, and the only 
important historic finds date from the 
Alamanic period. At Gultlingen, near 
Wildberg, a number of the well-known 
row graves of the Alamans have been 
opened, and the beautiful metal ob- 
jects found there may be seen in the 
museum at Stuttgart. In the guide-book 
to the Stuttgart Museum there are 13 
places mentioned where important Ala- 
manic finds have been made in Wurttem- 
berg. Of these 13 places, 9 are “ingens,” 
two are “heims,” and only two with 
other endings—a proportion which seems 
to fit in with the theory that the “ingens” 
were founded by the Alamans. 
INTERESTING MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE 
For details of the medieval remains, 
the guide-books must be consulted, but 
the ruined castle of Zavelstein, on the 
