Kuael  (Zum  Maimer  Hofyy  a  busy  little  town  with  cloth  and  other  factories,
was  burned  down  by  the  French  in  1794,  on  suspicion  of  being  concerned
in  a  forgery  of  'assignats\  In  the  neighbourhood  are  considerable  syenite
quarries.
54i/2  M.  Hauptstuhl;  57  M.  Bruchmuhlbach.  64  M.  Homburg
(tDiimmler),  a  small  town,  with  a  handsome  Roman  Catholic  Church,
built  in  1840.  The  'Bergschloss  Homburg'  has  entirely  dis-
appeared. The  castle  of  Carlsberg,  on  a  hill  >/2  hr.  to  the  N.E.,
was  built  by  Duke  Charles  II.  of  Zweibriicken  in  1780,  and  de-
stroyed by  the  French  in  1793.
Fkom  Homburg  to  Saargemund,  30  M.,  railway  in  21/*  brs.  —  4  M.
Schwarzenacker.  From  (6  M.)  Eindd  a  branch-line  diverges  to  Bierbaeh,
Lautxkirehen ,  Wilrzbach,  St.  IngUrt,  Scheldt,  and  SaarbrUdken  (19  M.  i
p.  154).
7  M.  Zweibriicken  (*ZweibrUcker  Ho/;  P/dtzer  Ho/),  formerly  the  re-
sidence of  the  Dukes  of  Zweibriicken,  and  known  to  the  literary  world
as  the  place  where  the  Editione*  BiponUnae  of  classical  authors  were
published.  It  is  now  a  town  of  10,000  inhab.,  and  contains  the  chief
court  of  the  Bavarian  Palatinate,  which  occupies  the  old  castle.  To  the
left  of  the  E.  entrance  to  the  town  Is  the  new  prison.  When  Charles  X.
Ghistavus  of  the  Zweibriicken  family  ascended  the  Swedish  throne,  the
Duchy  became  subject  to  Sweden,  which  it  continued  to  be  till  the  death
of  Charles  XII.  in  1719.  The  Alexanderkirche  contains  the  burial-vaults  of
the  ducal  house.  The  new  Roman  Catholic  Church  is  a  handsome  building
in  the  Gothic  style.  The  Government  Stud  here  was  originally  founded
by  the  old  Dukes  of  Zweibriicken.  —  To  Landau,  see  p.  261.
The  line  then  leads  by  Bierbach,  Blieskastel,  Oersheim-Walsheim,  and
Reinheim,  to  (30  H.)  Saargemund  (p.  273).
