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Idilia Dubb was a seventeen-year-old Scottish lady who accompanied her father, mother, sister and brother in 1851 on a holiday trip to Germany and had a tragic end on Lahneck Castle . June 16th in 1851 Idilia Dubb set out to record landscape views of the Rhine river. When she did not return for supper that evening the police was called and - it is said - combed the whole area. By 1860 the tower of Lahneck Castle was to be repaired. The workmen came upon a skeleton inside the top of the ruined tower. Along with the skeleton they found pages of her sketchbook, and on them Idilia had recorded the horror of her final days. She wrote that she had managed to climb to the top of the tower on the rotted wooden stairs. When she reached the top of the tower, however, the stairs collapsed and she was trapped. Idilia was confident that people would see her signals for rescue. As she waved, the boatmen waved back. Idilia slowly starved. In her final hours she determined to leap from the tower. But she leapt not. Her skeleton was found in the tower ruin on the top which was surrounded with an insurmountable wall of 3 meter high. Beverly D. Eddy: “Abbeys, Ghosts, and Castles – A Guide to the Folk History of the Middle Rhine”. Carlton Press, Inc. ISBN 0806212055 |
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