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hio-h-roads pass through, inchiding the one which connects the Upper Neckar with 

 SchafFhausen and the Lake of Constanz. Ehingen (5,605 inhabitants), a small 

 manufacturing town, lies in the centre of the Jura, at the head of a stream which 

 joins the Danube above Sigmaruigen (3,729 inhabitants), the cheerful capital of 

 the principality of Hohenzollern. 



Ulm (30,222 inhabitants) is the largest town of Danubian Wiirttemberg, but 

 its suburb on the left bank of the Danube, Neu-Ulin (6,930 inhabitants), belongs 

 to Bavaria. The Danube here first becomes navigable. The strategical importance 

 of Ulm is very considerable, and it is defended by formidable fortifications. The 

 citadel occupies the very site where the Austrian General Mack, after the battle 

 of Elchingen, surrendered to Marshal Ney (1805). From the fourteenth to the 



Fig. 138. ENTitANCE TO THE PoKT OF LiNDAU. 



seventeenth century Ulm was a flourishing city, and it was during that time of 

 prosperity that the Gothic cathedral was built, one of the greatest architectural 

 achievements of Germans. The tower, as originally planned, was to rise to a height 

 of 490 feet, but has not yet been completed. 



One of the railways radiating from Ulm takes us to the Wiirttemberg town of 

 Heidcnheim (5,677 inhabitants), where there are woollen-mills and bleaching 

 grounds. The principal line, however, connects Ulm with the Lake of Constanz. 

 It takes us past the old town of B'hcrach (7,376 inhabitants), the birthplace of 

 Wieland. At Schussenrled (1,360 inhabitants), farther on, prehistoric weapons, 

 with the bones of the reindeer and other animals, have been discovered in the 

 peat bogs. Ravenshiirg (9,078 inhabitants), with its picturesque towers, lies 

 likewise on the road to the lake. Vinevards surround it, as well as one of its 



