The Park in Muskau 137 



ungenlied," Rudigen von Bechlarn, has been 

 added.' 



As the open space before this building serves 

 as z point de vue for a street of the town and the 

 chief way to the park is at this entrance, the 

 equestrian statue of the old Magyar will be found 

 here, the best site for it. 



At a later epoch my ancestors built, only a hun- 

 dred paces from the first castle, another one with 

 a much more agreeable exterior, connected with 

 the first by fortifications and moats suitable to 

 their enlarged property and more exalted rank 

 (they had just been elevated to the rank of 

 "Reichsgrafen"). An Italian architect built it 

 as well as a so-called "garden palace" at the 

 same distance on the other side, which was used 

 later on as a theater, and made half as large again 

 but deformed in the most tasteless manner in the 

 process. 

 \ One can see from the plan how I converted 



' It is true, I may say in passing, that in some genealogical works 

 doubt has been thrown on this genealogy of our family, but although it 

 has not been proved historically correct, it has been made highly prob- 

 able by some attested copies from ancient original documents, which 

 latter were unfortunately lost in a great fire at Schedlau in the beginning " 

 of the sixteenth century, as well as by the identity of the name (as our 

 family name was written "Pechlarn" as late as the fifteenth century), 

 and lastly, by the similarity of the arms, as is proved by the monument 

 of Pellegrin, Bishop of Passau, a descendant of Budiger in the ninth cen- 

 tury, where the separate limbs of an eagle in four fields (quarterings) 

 are to be seen as in our arms of the present day. The formerly direct 

 branch of my family, the Grafen Piickler Limpurg auf Farrenbach, are 

 said to possess interesting information on the subject, which I hereby 

 invite them to disclose; for who can blame us for setting at a high value 

 the imperishable heroic stories of Germany, even if we only have prob- 

 ability on our side f 



