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Tatle of Contents <-1^, 5 Table of Contents Foreword 8 Introduction 10 The Brothers Grimm 14 The fifty-three member communities of the German Fairy Tale Coute and the two Brothers Grimm locales Gottingen and Berlin: Hanau, Brothers-Grimm-City 20 Sidebar: German Romanticism 26 Steinau an der StraBe, Brothers-Grimm-Town 28 Sidebar: Ferdinand Grimm 33 Freiensteinau 35 Herbstein 38 Alsfeld 42 Sidebar: What is Walpurgis Night? 47 Marburg, University Home of the Brothers Grimm 50 Lahntal 62 Willingshausen 66 Schwalmstadt 70 Sidebar: Why Roland? 75 Bad Hersfeld 76 Knullwald 83 Homberg (Efce) 86 Sidebar: The Reformation and the German Fairy Tale Landscape 91 Fritzlar 93 BadWildungen 100 Frankenberg (Eder) 107 Waldeck 113 Wolfhagen 120 Schauenburg 126 Niedenstein 132 Gudensberg 136 Baunatal 141 Kassel, Capital of the German Fairy Tale Route 146 Nieste 158 http://d-nb.info/1068080035 6 v&a TaUe of Contents Kaufungen 162 Helsa 168 Hessisch Lichtenau 172 Sidebar: Happy endings/sad endings: Which are better? 176 Melsungen 177 Bad Sooden-Allendorf 182 Witzenhausen 187 Mackenrode 193 Heilbad Heiligenstadt 197 Ebergotzen 206 Bovenden 212 Hann. Munden 215 Grebenstein 223 Hofgeismar, Town of the Sleeping Beauty 228 Sidebar: The Disneyfication of Sleeping Beauty 234 Trendelburg 236 Oberweser 240 Wahlsburg 245 Bad Karlshafen 249 Sidebar: What is the Huguenot tradition? 254 Furstenberg (Weser) 256 Polle 260 Lugde, Town of the Burning Easter Wheels 265 Bodenwerder, Munchausen-Town 272 Sidebar: What is the Munchausen Syndrome? 276 Hamelin, Pied Piper-Town 278 Hessisch Oldendorf 289 Bad Oeynhausen 294 Wiedensahl 302 Nienburg (Weser) 308 Hoya 314 Buxtehude, Hanseatic Town 319 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City 324 Sidebar: What is a Hanseatic City? 332 Bremerhaven, Seaside City 333 Gottingen, Brothers Grimm Locale 342 Sidebar: Who exactly is Ganseliesel? 347 Berlin, Brothers Grimm Locale 348 'lalilc of Contents 7 Sa£aS - Legends - §on^S The Bridegroom from Berfa (Alsfeld) 48 Saint Elizabeth in Marburg 58 Saint Boniface and Donar's Oak at Fritzlar 98 The Dwarfs ofWaldeck Castle and the Stone of Allegiance 118 Empress Kunigunde (Kaufungen) 167 King Dagobert Founds Heiligenstadt 204 Max und Moritz (Ebergotzen) 210 Doctor Ironbeard (Hann. Munden) 221 Baron Munchausen's Ride on the Cannonball (Bodenwerder) .... 277 The Children of Hamelin 286 The Fern Seed (Bad Oeynhausen) 301 The Ship's Goblin Klabauter Man (Bremerhaven) 340 Brothers Grimm: Children's and .Household Tales The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids (no 5) 354 Rapunzel (no 12) 358 Cinderella (no 21) 363 Frau Holle (no 24) 371 Little Red Riding Hood (no 26) 375 The Bremen Town Musicians (no 27) 380 The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (no 29) 384 Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose (no 50) 391 Snow White (no 53) 396 Goose Girl (no 89) 406 Doctor Know-lt-AII (no 98) 413 The Hare and the Hedgehog (no 187) 415 The Authors 421 Bibliography 423 Photo Credits 434 Web-Index and GrimmHeimat 440 Travel along the German Fairy Tale Route 444 Alphabetical Listing of Locations 445 Map of the German Fairy Tale Route at the end of the book .