Thank you very much! Yes it is very interesting and adds information to what i did not know. Thank you for all your hunting. tonia On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:47 PM, <info@artadventures.co.nz> wrote: > i'd gathered these links trying to better understand transport and > maybe they're interesting... > > The first public journey [about 11 minutes long] was made at 9.00 am on > 24 April 1837, the first major railway line to be built between > important cities in Germany, and only the second line to be opened... > The Leipziger Zeitung, the local paper, reported... The price of a > single journey Leipzig - Althen was: First class - 8 Groschen; Second > class - 6 Groschen; Third class - 4 Groschen. There were no children's > tickets and no child under 12 years of age was allowed to travel... > from http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~jjlace/part8.html > > Article on proposed reform towards standardised pricing for German > passenger fares - 1869 proposed 5 groschen, 10 and 60 groschen for 3rd, > 2nd and 1st class respectively. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1882970 1891 > article excerpt restricted access > > RE: the value of a Groschen -- currency seems pretty complicated then > but about 24 groschen made 1 taler > > ...the poor man has completed his day's work, what did he earn for his > sour sweat? Only 7 1/2 to 10 silver groschen -- which is 20 cents in > American money... what do they earn as journeymen? The highest income > per week is 1 Thaler -- 62 cents in American money... from The > Immigration Diary of Michael Friedrich Radke, 1848 > http://hometown.aol.com/lhchristen/1848.htm > > Purchasing power of the Talers http://www.economy-point.org/t/taler.html > At the end 18. Century could acquire one in the German area for a Taler > 12 kg bread, 6 kg meat, 2 bottles Champagner, 1 kg tobacco or 250 g > dte, a shirt, a pair of shoes or three pair Wollsocken cost likewise a > Taler. > Food and cost of renting for two furnished rooms amounted to > approximately 100-120 Taler annually. > Yearly earnings/services of a master craftsman were with 200-600 Taler, > some middle Prussian official with approximately 100 Talern. The income > of a simple Prussian soldier was with annually accurately 24 Talern > because of the poverty border. While Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a > writer and Weimar secret advice over 3000 Taler earned, Friedrich > Schiller came as a historical professor only on 200 Taler. > > > > > > On 16/08/2008, at 3:39 AM, TONIA NIELSEN wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > Not to long ago, someone posted information about railroads in Baden > > and > > said that our ancestors might have used the railroads to help them > > reach a > > sea port. I started reaching Trains in Germany and France since my > > great, > > great grandfather left Baden in 1837 and went to Le Havre to catch the > > ship. > > > > I discovered that the first long distance train was not completed until > > April 1839. It was from Leipzig to Dresden. gr, gr, grandpa could > > not have > > used that. I also discovered that France did not start building long > > distance railways until 1842. gr, gr grandpa could not have used that. > > > > However, I discovered that France is/was full of canals which connect > > all of > > their major cities and that these canals were used to move crops and > > people > > until the railroads developed. Also no one has mentioned the > > stagecoach > > which was in use in Europe and England long before it ever came to the > > US. > > So, if gr, gr, grandpa had a little money--don't know what these > > things cost > > to ride, didn't find a site that covered that--he could have loaded his > > clothes, food, and family on a canal barge and rode them for quite a > > distance. So, down the Rhine River to Strasbourg and then onto the > > canals > > for as far as possible to eventually reach Le HAvre. > > > > Tonia > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >