By bicycle or train to Friedrichsdorf
There are signposted bicycle routes leading to Friedrichsdorf from all directions, though when I went through Bad Homburg I had some trouble finding my way because either one sign was Read More …
Category: Friedrichsdorf
A new home for the Huguenots
The town of Friedrichsdorf (= “Friedrich’s village”), Germany, was founded in 1687 by Huguenots, French Protestants who had fled to escape religious prosecution in France. They were invited to settle Read More …
Inventing the telephone in Friedrichsdorf
For many years, Alexander Graham Bell “was erroneously thought to have invented the telephone.” So we are told at this small museum in Friedrichsdorf, a town of 25,000 people located Read More …