The unaccountable decisions of a short-sighted Ministry1, which, without ostensible2 reason, send unfortunate military families rolling{15} about the empire like gigantic foot-balls—from Hungary to Poland, down to Croatia, and up again to Bohemia, all in one breath—too often burst on hapless German ménages like a devastating3 bomb, bringing moans and curses, tears and hysterics, in their train, according as the sufferer happens to be of choleric4 or lachrymose5 temperament6. Only those who have lived in this country, and tasted of the bitter-sweets of Austrian military life, can tell how formidable it is to be forced to pack up everything—literally7 everything, from your stoutest8 kitchen-chairs to your daintiest egg-shell china—half a dozen times during an equal number of years.
For my own part, however—and I am aware that I am considered singular in my views—I had little objection to being treated in this sportive fashion, as long as it gave me the opportunity of seeing fresh scenes and different types of people. There are two sides to every question, a silver—or at least a tin-foil—lining to every leaden cloud, and it is surely wiser to regard one’s self as a tourist than as an exile?
What if crockery perish and mirrors be shivered in the portentous9 flitting? Dry your eyes, and console yourself by gazing at mountains new and lakes unknown. And if furniture be annihilated10, and your grand piano-forte reduced to a wailing11 discord12, what of that? Such loss is only gain, for in return you will hear the music of unknown tongues and the murmur13 of strange waters. If the proceeding14 be often illogical, the change is always welcome; and on this particular occasion I secretly blessed the playful impetus15 which had sent our ball of fate thus high up in the air, to alight again in the land beyond the forest.
It was in the beginning of April that we started on our journey, and in Galicia we left everything still deep in ice and snow; but scarce had we passed the Hungarian frontier, and got down on to the broad plains, when a warm, genial16 breeze came to meet us and tell us that winter was gone. The snow left us by degrees, and with it the poverty-stricken, careworn17 expression peculiar18 to Poland; spring flowers ventured out of their hiding-places, singly at first, then in groups of twos and threes, till they grew to extensive patches of gold or sapphire19 blue, pressing up to the rails on either side of our way. Greasy20 kaftans began to give place to sheepskin bundas, and pointed21 mustaches became more numerous than corkscrew ringlets. The air seemed full of joyous22 music—the voice of the lark23 and the strains of{16} a gypsy fiddler alternately taking up the song of triumph over the return of spring.
The railway communications are very badly managed, so that it was only on the evening of the second day (fully24 forty-eight hours) that we arrived at Klausenburg, where we were to stop for a night’s rest. It would hardly have taken longer to go from Lemberg to London.
Coming from the Hungarian plains, the entrance into Transylvania is very striking, as the train dashes along narrow winding25 valleys, where, below, a green mountain torrent26 is breaking over gray bowlders; and above, the cliffs are piled up so high and so near that only by craning our necks out of the carriage-window can we catch a glimpse of the sky above. Unfortunately, the early darkness had set in long before we reached Klausenburg, so that I had no opportunity of observing the country immediately round the town.
Fresh from Polish hotels as we were, the inn where rooms had been secured struck us as well kept and appointed, though I dare say that had we come from Vienna or Paris it would have appeared just fairly second-rate. The beds were excellent, the rooms clean; the doors could actually be locked or bolted without superhuman effort; the bells could really ring, and what was stranger yet, their summons was occasionally attended to.
I was somewhat disappointed next morning when daylight came round again and showed me the environs of the town. Pretty enough, but tame and insignificant27, with nothing of the sublime28 grandeur29 which the entrance into the land had led me to expect. The town itself differed but little from many other Hungarian towns I had seen before, and had indeed an exclusively Hungarian character, being the winter resort of the Magyar aristocracy of Transylvania.
The present town of Klausenburg, or, in Hungarian, Kolosvar, lying three hundred and thirty-five metres above the sea-level, and built on the site of Napoca, a Roman city, was founded by German colonists30 about the year 1270-1272, and was for many years exclusively a German town, where Hungarians were only tolerated on sufferance and in one restricted quarter. By degrees, however, these latter obtained a preponderance; and finally, when the Unitarian sect31 made of Klausenburg its principal seat, the Saxons withdrew in disgust from the place altogether.
In the year 1658, Klausenburg was besieged32 by the Tartars. The Turkish Sultan having deposed33 George Rakoczy II. for acting{17} against his will, sent hither the barbarians34 to devastate35 the land. Burning and pillaging36, the wild hordes37 reached Klausenburg (then a Saxon city), and standing38 before its closed gates, they demanded a ransom39 of thirty thousand thalers for sparing the town.
Martin Auer, the Klausenburg judge and a brave Saxon man, went out to meet the enemy with a portion of the required money. The Tartars threatened to murder him for not bringing the whole of what they asked, but Auer divined that not even the payment of the entire thirty thousand thalers would save the town from pillage40. The Tartars intended to take the sum, and then to sack the city. So he begged to be suffered to go as far as the town gates in order to persuade his fellow-citizens to deposit the rest of the money; but when he had reached within speaking distance, he cried out to his countrymen,
“Friends and citizens! I have come hither under the feint of persuading you to pay the rest of the fine demanded by the Tartars; but what I really advise is for you to keep your money and resist the enemy to the last; trust them not, for however much you pay, they will not spare you. For my part, I gladly lay down my life for the good of my people.” But hardly had he finished speaking when the Tartars, guessing at the purport41 of his words, laid hold of the brave Saxon and dragged him off to a cruel death.
A peculiar characteristic of Klausenburg are the Unitarian divorces, which bring many strangers on a flying visit to this town, where the conjugal42 knot is untied43 with such pleasing alacrity44, and replaced at will by more congenial bonds.
To attain45 this end the divorcing party must be a citizen of Klausenburg, and prove his possession to house or land in the place. This, however, is by no means so complicated as it sounds, the difficulty being provided for by a row of miserable46 hovels chronically47 advertised for sale, and which for a nominal48 price are continually passing from hand to hand.
House-buying, divorce, and remarriage can therefore be easily accomplished49 within a space of three or four days—a very valuable arrangement for those to whom time is money. By this convenient system, therefore, if you happen to have quarrelled with your first wife on a Sunday, you have only to take the train to Klausenburg on Monday, become Unitarian on Tuesday, buy a house on Wednesday, be divorced on Thursday, remarried on Friday, and on Saturday sell{18} your house and turn your back on the place with the new-chosen partner of your life, and likewise the pleasant arrière-pensée that you can begin again da capo next week if so pleases you.
I went to visit this street for sale, which presents a most doleful aspect. As the houses are continually changing hands, none of the transitory owners care to be at the expense of repairs or keeping in order; therefore rotten planking, hingeless gates, broken windows, and caved-in roofs are the general order of the day. A row of card-houses merely to mark this imaginary sort of proprietorship50 would equally fulfil the purpose.
The town is said to be unhealthy, and the mortality among children very great. This is attributed to the impurity51 of the drinking-water, several of the springs which feed the town wells running through the church-yard, which lies on a hill.
To our left, about an hour after leaving Klausenburg, we catch sight of the Thorda Cleft52, or Spalt—one of the most remarkable53 natural phenomena54 which the country presents. It is nothing else but a gaping55, unexpected rift56, of three or four English miles in length, right through the limestone57 rocks, which rise about twelve hundred feet at the highest point. Deep and gloomy caverns58, formerly59 the abode60 of robbers, honey-comb these rocky walls, and a wild mountain torrent fills up the space between them, completing a weirdly61 beautiful scene; but on our first view of it from the railway-carriage it resembled nothing so much as a magnified loaf of bread severed62 in two by the cut of a gigantic knife.
I do not know how geologists63 account for the formation of the Thorda Cleft, but the people explain it in their own fashion by a legend:
The Hungarian King Ladislaus, surnamed the Saint, defeated and pursued by his bitterest enemies the Kumanes, sought refuge in the mountains. He was already hard pressed for his life, and close on his heels followed the pagans. Then, in the greatest strait of need, with death staring him in the face, the Christian64 monarch65 threw himself on his knees, praying to Heaven for assistance. And see! He forsaketh not those that trust in Him! Suddenly the mountain is rent in twain, and a deep, yawning abyss divides the King from his pursuers.
THE THORDA SPALT.
The rest of the country between Klausenburg and Hermanstadt is bleak66 and uninteresting—it is, in fact, as I afterwards learned, one of the few ugly stretches to be found in this land, of which it has so{21} often been said that it is all beauty. A six hours’ journey brought us to our destination, Hermanstadt, lying at the terminus of a small and sleepy branch railway. Unfortunately, with us also arrived the rain, streaming down in torrents67, and blotting68 out all view of the landscape in a persistent69 and merciless manner; and for full eight days this dismal70 downpour kept steadily71 on, trying our patience and souring our tempers. What more exasperating72 situation can there be? To have come to a new place and yet be unable to see it; as soon be sent into an unknown picture-gallery with a bandage over the eyes.
There was, however, nothing to be done meanwhile but to dodge73 about the town under a dripping umbrella and try to gain a general idea of its principal characteristics.
A little old-fashioned German town, spirited over here by supernatural agency; a town that has been sleeping for a hundred years, and is only now slowly and reluctantly waking up to life, yawning and stretching itself, and listening with incredulous wonder to the account of all that has happened in the outside world during its slumber—such was the first impression I received of Hermanstadt. The top-heavy, overhanging gables, the deserted74 watch-towers, the ancient ramparts, the crooked75 streets, in whose midst the broad currents of a peaceful stream partly fulfil the office of our newer-fashioned drains, and where frequently the sprouting76 grass between the irregular stone pavement would afford very fair sustenance77 for a moderate flock of sheep, all combine to give the impression of a past which has scarcely gone and of a present which has not yet penetrated78.
There are curious old houses, with closely grated windows whose iron bars are fancifully wrought79 and twisted, sometimes in the shape of flowers and branches, roses and briers interlaced, which seem to have sprung up here to defend the chamber80 of some beautiful princess lying spellbound in her sleep of a hundred years. There are quaint81 little gardens which one never succeeds in reaching, and which in some inexplicable82 manner seem to be built up in a third or fourth story; sometimes in spring we catch a glimpse of a burst of blossom far overhead, or a wind-tossed rose will shower its petals83 upon us, yet we cannot approach to gather them. There is silence everywhere, save for occasional vague snatches of melody issuing from a half-open window—old forgotten German tunes84, such as the “Mailüfterl” or “Anchen von Tharau,” played on feeble, toneless spinnets. There are nooks and corners and unexpected flights of steps leading from the{22} upper to the lower town, narrow passages and tunnels which connect opposite streets.
“These are to enable the inhabitants to scuttle85 away from the Turks,” I was told, my informant lowering his voice, as if we might expect a row of turbans to appear at the other side of the passage we were traversing. “There is our theatre,” he continued, pointing to a dumpy tower bulging86 out of the rampart-wall. One of the principal strongholds this used to be, but its shape now suited conveniently for the erection of a stage, and the narrow arrow-slits came in handy for the fixing-up of side-scenes.
Many more such old fortress-towers are to be found all over the town, some of which are now used as military stores, while others have been converted into peaceable summer-houses. At the time when Hermanstadt was still a Saxon stronghold each tower had its own name, as the Goldsmiths’ Tower, the Tanners’, the Locksmiths’, etc., according to the particular guild87 which manned it in time of siege.
From one of these towers it was that the Sultan Amurad was killed by an arrow when besieging88 the town in 1438 with an army of seventy thousand men.
The whole character of Hermanstadt is thoroughly89 old German, reminding me rather of some of the Nuremberg streets or portions of Bregenz than of anything to be seen in Hungary.
The streams which run down the centre of each street are no doubt as enjoyable for the ducks who swim in them, as for young ladies desirous of displaying a neat pair of ankles; but for more humdrum90 mortals they are somewhat of a nuisance. They can, it is true, be jumped in dry weather without particular danger to life or limb; but there are many prejudiced persons who do not care to transform a sober round of shopping into a species of steeple-chase, and who will persist in finding it hard to be unable to purchase a yard of ribbon or a packet of pins without taking several flying leaps over swift watercourses.
Much of the life and occupations of our excellent Saxon neighbors is betrayed by these telltale streamlets, which, chameleon-like, alter their color according to what is going on around them. Thus on washing-days the rivulet91 in our street used to be of a bright celestial92 blue, rivalling the laughing Mediterranean93 in color, unless indeed the family in question were possessed94 of much scarlet95 hosiery of inferior quality, in which case it would assume a gory96 hue97 suggestive{23} of secret murders. When the chimney-sweep had been paying his rounds in the neighborhood, the current would be dark and gloomy as the turbid98 waters of the Styx; and when a pig was killed a few doors off—But no; the subject threatens to grow too painful, and I feel that a line must be drawn99 at the pig.
OLD FORTRESS-TOWER ON THE RAMPARTS AT HERMANSTADT.[3]
Such is the every-day aspect of affairs; but in rainy weather these little brooklets, becoming obstreperous100, swell101 out of all proportions, and for this frequent contingency102 small transportable bridges are kept in readiness to be placed across the principal thoroughfares of the town. After a very heavy thunder-plump in summer, even these bridges do not suffice, as then the whole street is flooded from side to side, and for an hour or so Hermanstadt becomes Venice—minus the gondolas103.
These occasional floodings give rise to many amusing incidents, as that of an officer who, invited to dinner by the commanding general, beheld104 with dismay the dinner-hour approach. He had only to cross the street, or rather the canal, for at that moment it presented the appearance of a navigable river. Would the waves subside105 in time? was his anxious question as he gazed at the clock in growing suspense106, and dismally107 surveyed his beautifully fitting patent-leather boots. No, the waves did not subside,{24} and no carriage was to be procured108, the half-dozen fiacres of which Hermanstadt alone could boast being already engaged. The clock struck the quarter. “What is to be done?” moaned the unhappy man in agony of spirit, while the desperate alternatives of swimming or of suicide began to dance before his fevered brain. “A boat, a boat, a kingdom for a boat!” he repeated, mechanically, when it struck him that the quotation109 might as well be taken literally in this case, and that in default of a boat, he had three good steeds in his stables. “Saddle my horse—my tallest one!” he cried, excitedly; “I am saved!”—and so he was. The gallant110 steed bore him through the roaring flood, bringing him high and dry to the door of his host, with patent boots intact.
Meanwhile—to return to the subject of my first days at Hermanstadt—the rain had continued to fall for a whole week, and I was beginning to lose all patience. “I don’t believe in the mountains you all tell me about!” I felt inclined to say, when my first eight days had shown me nothing but leaden clouds and dull gray mists; but even while I thought it, the clouds were rolling away, and bit by bit a splendid panorama111 was unfolding before my eyes.
Sure enough, they were there, the mountains I had just been insulting by my disbelief, a long glittering row of snowy peaks shining in the outbursting sunshine, so delicately transparent112 in their loveliness, so harmonious113 in their blended coloring, so sublimely114 grand in their sweeping115 lines, that I could have begged their pardon for having doubted their existence!
As one beautiful picture often suffices to light up a dingy116 apartment, so one lovely view gives life and interest to a monotonous117 county town. It takes the place of theatres, art galleries, and glittering shop-windows; it acts at times as a refreshing118 medicine or a stimulating119 tonic120; and though I saw it daily, it used to strike me afresh with a sense of delightful121 surprise whenever I stepped round the corner of my street, and stood in face of this glorious tableau122.
The town of Hermanstadt lies in the centre of a large and fertile plain, intersected by the serpentine123 curves of the river Cibin, and dotted over by well-built Saxon villages. To the north and west the land is but gently undulating, while to the east and south the horizon is bounded by this imposing124 chain of the Fogarascher Hochgebirg,{25} their highest peaks but seldom free from snow, their base streaked125 by alternate stretches of oak, beech126, and pine forests.
At one point this forest, which must formerly have covered the entire plain, reaches still to the farther end of the town, melting into the promenade127, so that you can walk in the shade of time-honored oak-trees right to the foot of the mountains—a distance of some eight English miles.
To complete my general sketch128 of the town of Hermanstadt, I shall merely mention that although our house was situated129 in one of the liveliest streets, yet the passing through of a cart or carriage was a rare event, which, in its unwonted excitement, instinctively130 caused every one to rush to their windows; that the pointed irregular pavement, equally productive of corns and destructive to chaussure, seems to be the remnant of some medi?val species of torture; that gas is unknown, and the town but insufficiently131 lighted by dingy petroleum132 lamps.
Probably by the time that Hermanstadt fully wakens up to life again, it will discover to its astonishment133 that it has slept through a whole era, and skipped the gas stage of existence altogether, for it will then be time to replace the antediluvian134 petroleum lamps, not by the already old-fashioned gas ones, but by the newer and more brilliant rays of electric light.
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