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 here by the local ruler, Friedrich II (1633-1708), who at the time was the Landgraf of a small, impoverished and Read More …
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 missing or I overlooked it. (So I went straight ahead at one corner where I should have turned left.) When Read More …
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 20 km north of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bell did not speak his first telephone message — “Mr. Watson, come Read More …