would like to know why our village is called Keilhau?"
While speaking, he pointed up the stream and briefly described its
church, was called Eichfeld, and at our right was another which we could
and the bottom of the whole valley.html">valley had been clothed with denseoak
clear (lichten) these woods at Lichtstadt. This was a difficult task,
the oaks (Fiche), and carried the trunks to Schaale, where the bark
the name of Lichtstadt came from the clearing of the forests, Eichfeld
Keilhau from the hewing with axes.
This simple tale of ancient times had sprung from the Thuringian soil,
delighted me. I believed it, and when afterward I looked down from a
or pineclad mountain slopes with huge oak forests, and beheld the giant
Keilhau had suddenly disappeared. It had gained meaning to me, and Herr
of Friedrich Froebel, the founder of the institution: "The external must
instruction with the external world which surrounds the human being as
first meeting, he questioned us about the trees and bushes by the
them, he mentioned their names and described their peculiarities.
At last we reached the Keilhau plain, a bowl whose walls formed tolerably
where an opening permitted the Schaalbach to wind.html">wind through meadows and
like the beetle in the calyx of a flower which has lost one of its
keep the wind from entering the valley, and to this, and the delicious,
surprising healthfulness is doubtless due. During my residence there of
on the fiftieth jubilee of the institute, in 1867, which I attended, the
pupil had died, and he had had heart disease when his parents sent him to
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