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Updated: June 27, 2025
Looking back upon it from this distance of time, I should pronounce the Electoral Residenz at Bruehl to be a miracle of bad taste; but not Aladdin's palace if planted amid the gardens of Armida could then have seemed lovelier in my eyes.
The Warden made him over to the executioner, who led Hus out under a strong guard, escorted by eight hundred armed men, followed by an immense multitude of people curious to see the final scene. Hus Burned. In the church-yard they were just burning the books of Hus; he smiled sadly. With a firm step, singing and praying, Hus went to the "Bruehl," a quarter of a mile north of the Schnetz gate.
Yes; they, too, have their history but let it be. We have had enough sad stories for to-day." Those other things, as I had called them, were a withered rose in a little cardboard box, and a miniature of a lady in a purple morocco case. It so happened that the Winter this year was unusually severe, not only at Bruehl and the parts about Cologne, but throughout all the Rhine country.
Come with me, my little Gretchen, and let's see what chairs and tables we can find up in the garrets." Now I had been longing to explore the top rooms ever since I came to live at Bruehl those top rooms under the roof, of which the shutters were always closed, and the doors always locked, and where not even the housemaids were admitted oftener than twice a year.
I looked up in his face, but felt, somehow, that I must not speak to him; for the cloud was still there, and his thoughts were far away. Presently his pipe went out; but he held it still, unconscious and absorbed. In all the months we had been living at Bruehl I had never seen him look so troubled.
Overwhelmed with terror, and perhaps with remorse, he had rushed out of Monsieur Maurice's presence, never to return. It was supposed that he had then immediately gathered together all that belonged to him, and had taken advantage of the bustle and confusion consequent on the King's arrival, to leave Bruehl in one of the return carriages or fourgons that had brought the royal party from Cologne.
I heard of the bodily strength of Augustus the Second, of his many children and his vast expenses, then of his successor's love of art and of making collections; of Count Bruehl and his boundless love of magnificence, which in detail appeared almost absurd, of his numerous banquets and gorgeous amusements, which were all cut off by Frederick's invasion of Saxony.
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