Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…
"Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…." by Joseph Kyselak is a travelogue written in the early 19th century. The work traces a long walking journey across the Austrian lands—especially the Tyrol—blending alpine scenery, folk tales, local customs, and reflections on recent patriotic struggles. It reads as both mountaineering report and ethnographic portrait, with a first-person traveler and his dog moving through valleys, fairs, huts, and high passes. The opening of
Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg,…. finds the narrator entering Tyrol at night through dense forest, losing and regaining his dog after a likely wolf chase, and sleeping in a woodcutter’s hut before descending toward Gerlos. He sketches the wild Gerlos region—senn huts, a powerful timber-rafting weir, abundant trout, wolves preying on cattle, and stark poverty signaled by Kleie bread—then reaches Zell’s church fair, describing raucous dancing, shooting contests, heavy drinking, wary scrutiny of his passport, and feats of strength. Leaving the tumult with veteran fighters from 1809, he moves up the Zillertal to Mayrhofen, endures a filthy, verminous inn, and at dawn turns into the Duxer valley, where a lyrical misty morning contrasts with the wholesome hospitality of Lanerbach. With a guide he enters the desolate Zem valley and, in fog and over treacherous ice and rock, becomes unwitting cover for a poacher’s successful chamois hunt (complete with blood-drinking and a ruse to mislead rivals), then crosses to the Pfitscher valley, recounts a tale of brave herding girls repelling raiders in 1809, and reaches Sterzing. He continues over the Jaufen—after a taciturn guide abandons him—to descend into the Passeier valley, surveys its cliff-clinging farms, arrives at the Sandwirt, and begins a concise biography of Andreas Hofer and the 1809 uprising, which the excerpt breaks off mid-account at the moment of betrayal. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kyselak, Josef, 1799-1831 |
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| Title | Skizzen einer Fußreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, : nebst einer romantisch pittoresken Darstellung mehrerer Ritterburgen und ihrer Volkssagen, Gebirgsgegenden und Eisglätscher auf dieser Wanderung, unternommen im Jahre 1825 von Joseph Kyselak. (2/2) |
| Alternate Title | Skizzen einer Fussreise durch Oesterreich, Steiermark, Kärnthen, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tirol und Baiern nach Wien, : nebst einer romantisch pittoresken Darstellung mehrerer Ritterburgen und ihrer Volkssagen, Gebirgsgegenden und Eisglätscher auf dieser Wanderung, unternommen im Jahre 1825 von Joseph Kyselak. (2/2) |
| Original Publication | Wien: Anton Pichler, 1829. |
| Credits | Raymond Papworth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | DB: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Subject | Austria -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Berchtesgaden (Germany) -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78026 |
| Release Date | Feb 24, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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