Thank you Aide, Love getting all the background info. Elaine -----Original Message----- >From: Aida Kraus <birchbaylady@gmail.com> >Sent: Feb 14, 2012 8:04 PM >To: GBHS <german-bohemian@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Ancient trade routes through Bohemia > >>From Aida: >Here are some of the ancient trade roads overland and on rivers. This >;link shows you is the Amber Road going from the Baltic to Venice and is >many thousands of years old: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road >Bohemia did not have any resources for salt, which was the only >preservative during the middle ages. It was so valuable that a trade route >was developed from Linz, Passau, Regensburg, Prachatitz, and finally Prague >from where it was disposed to all of Bohemia and Moravia,. This trail was >called "Der goldene Steig" or "The golden trail" because salt was a most >valuable commodity and was often paid for in silver and gold. >http://helios.augustana.edu/~ew/des/works-of-art/su34.html >The easiest access into Bohemia was from the East via the Duchy of Moravia, >another not so easy trail went through the Bohemian forest from the South >near Bergreichenstein (Kasperske Hory) and Schuettenhofen (Susice) in the >general area of Plzen, and the easiest entry to Bohemia from the West was >along the Eger River through the Egerland flowing East toward the Elbe >River. Salt and Amber was coming in, and silver and glass was going out. >German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message