ENVIRONS OF WILDBAD.

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The value of building tiniber pr. Cubic foot is: 12 kr. for oak, 11 kr. for bcecb, and 9 kr. for lir wood.

Tbc new high road to Ctthc is conductcd along the Icsser Enz, until it opens upon a plateau of 1900 F. above the sea-level, but only to descend again into the valley of the Nagold , which von reach ncar the convent of Hirsau. — In the ycar 645, there dwelt in Calw a noble lady, Hcli- cena by name, a widow, rieh and pious; liaving no off- spring of her own, she wished to devote her riches to the Service of Heaven, and prayed to be directcd in the way she should spend theni. One night she dreamt she was in a valley, ,and saw threc fine lir trees growing out of one stein; and she heard a voiee say to her: “Wliere you see thrce firs growing from one root, there bnild a church.” The next morning she went into the forest and found the trees as described in die dreain. Upon that spot she built a church, and Count Erlafi'ied of Calw 838 erected a cloister near it. Tliis flourished so greatly that it becamc too small for the monks and a new one was built in 1080, in which,. when it was finished, 260 Benedictine monks took up their abode, and devoted themselvcs to praying and singing. It soon was ornamented witli fine paintings. In the arcades were forty painted Windows; the church also was painted all over wilh 179 subjects taken from the bible; besides portraits of all the principal sovereigns until the time of Charles the Fifth. In one of the adjoining chapels were kept the clothes of a giant who lived in the mountains. They were made of leather and fastened together witli iron rings. His grave is. said to be near Wildbad, under a sand­stone rock, fourty two feet long by eighteen feet in breadth. It is deep in the earth, now almost covered with moss, and dates are cut in it as far back as 1500. Those who wish