Idilia Dubb

Seventeen year old Idilia Dubb from Edinburgh to have died of thirst in 1851 on one of the towers of the castle Lahneck.

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Prehistory

The 17 -year-old Idilia Dubb was, it is said, with her ​​parents and two siblings in 1851 on a trip to the Rhine, they also led to Koblenz. After spending the night at the hotel, Dubbs hiked the following day to Lahnstein, where they einmieteten on the Lahn in the pub. Before leaving sought Idilia who wanted to be a painter, but the former castle ruins Lahneck on to produce even a drawing of her. When she had climbed the twenty meter high tower of the castle, threw a wooden staircase that was built a few years earlier by nature lovers because of the beautiful views of the Lahn Valley in. So that you had cut off the back. It failed to make itself felt, so they after four days, during which she kept a diary, thirst.

In 1860, construction workers discovered a skeleton on the tower and a wall -lip Idilia Dubbs diary.

This story was - together with the last pages of the diary - published in two numbers of the Adenauer circle and weekly sheet on 26 October and 2nd November 1863. Until recently, the products were regarded as proof of the authenticity of the story. Appeared in 2002 in the C. Bertelsmann Jugendbuchverlag a translation of the alleged original diary. As editor of an alleged girlfriend Idilias is called by the name of Genevieve Hill in it. Especially recent research suggests that all of these documents are of no value and it is no more than an urban legend that was first brought in 1863 by the articles of the Adenauer county and weekly paper in circulation.

The Facts

The Book of the Bertelsmann publishing house

This publication are two diaries again. The first (larger ) contains the history of the Rhine trip up to the trip Idilias to Lahnstein, the second the sides allegedly found at the castle, much like they were cited in the Adenauer county and weekly.

The first diary can not be regarded as authentic in the face of a variety of inconsistencies.

The second diary band in the book can be seen in Figures naturally found little. It is striking that the book initially literally the version of the Adenauer circle and weekly sheet reproduces them, but in the end it is slightly different. The only two pictures of this second volume appear doubtful. The condition of the cover on the first photo does not match the description of the discovered diary - he is too well preserved. The photo of the opened book with the last page contains a date in days, and the term " my beloved, my father, my mother, ...". The first words are found in the first publication not weekly, but "my beloved" is mistranslated as " my beloved " in the German edition of the book, which suits the love story of the first diary band.

The two articles

In the introduction it is mentioned that there had been numerous publications in national newspapers as well as an imprint of the last pages of the diary in the Times. Various research could not verify this yet. Even the names of family members and said girlfriends do not appear in Birth even in death register of Edinburgh, which are accessible in the official government source for genealogical data in Scotland.

The descriptions contained in the articles on the appearance of the tower do not match the reality. A tower should be demolished due to disrepair. The 28 m high keep was - unlike some significantly lower in the dilapidated kennel walls - still almost completely intact. But he had - as usual for Bergfriede - no level access. The stairs to the upper floors are laid in vaults inside the outer wall, so that they were well received. At least there may be a breakdown in one fell swoop the question. New Bauuntersuchungen also show that access to the tower must be much earlier than 1860 is done. First, a building between exterior walls and the keep was rebuilt in the reconstruction in the 19th century, which was given access to this. Dendrochronological studies indicate as Year of the years 1853-55. In addition, some loose after centuries of falling stones were construction workers killed and he must therefore have been secured as a first-ever construction project. Rather possibly the time still well preserved and slender north-west tower is this question which - directly standing on the slope away from the castle - a good view over the Lahn valley offers and have the found after the weekly paper the collapsed wooden spiral staircase to.