448 Route 56. CLEVE. From Cologne 17 M. Wychen, with an old chateau, rebuilt after a fire in 1906. — The train crosses the Meuse. 24 M. Bavesteins 231/o M. Berchem; 26M. Osch, the chief place for the manufacture of mar rine, which is mostly exporte d to England; 29 M. Nuland- Geffen ; 34 M. Ros- malen. — 38 M. ’S Hertogenbosch, see p. 435. The last stations are Helvoirt and Udenhout. D1 1/2 M. Tilburg, see p. 455 56. From Cologne to Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Hook: of Holland) via Cleve and Nymwegen. 154 or 164M. Exp (fares 12 , 9 # 1 from Cologne to Nymwegen, 911/ aa in 23/3 hrs. -, 6 #); to (454 M.) Amsterdam in 5- Bl/s hrs. (20 .4 70, ); to (16a M.) Rotterdam in 43/s-51/2 hrs. (22 , 15 #90 p., an Railway to Cleve; thence Dutch Railway. Dutch custom- house at Nymwegen; German at Cranenburg. cote see Baedeker's Rhine. — Thence to Cleve, express in 1/,hrs., vid Neuss, Crefeld, and Goch. At Goch a line (on which express-trains between Berlin and London via Flushing run; t. 36b Pyare for Gennep, Beugen(p. 454), Uden, Veghel (p. 464), and (621/, M., in 43/,-2 hrs.) Boxtel (p. 455). TA1/5 M. ee — Hotels, all with gardens. Hérex Kuruavs, on the W. side of the town, at the Tierg garten, 60 R. at Ql/2-4, B. 11/4, D. 3-31/2, S.2 #4; Maxwatp, to the S. of the t wn, in the N Tassauer Allee, 100 R. at 3, B. 1, D. 3 #, both first-class. — HOTEL Strrum, HOTEL ROBBERS, with beer restaurant, both by Bae Tiergarten; Loocx, ppponite the pos st-office, 20 R. at 2-21/4, B. 3/4, D. 21/2 A; HoLtzem, near the castle e, 30 R. at 2-3, Bee: 2"/o Ms Bite ee Hor, near the station. ee Dutch Kleef, once the capital of a duchy of that name, with 17,000 inhab. and some chalybeate springs, is charmingly situated on the slope of a hill which forms part of a wooded range, and is much frequented as a summer-residence by Dutch families. In the Emmericher Strasse, which leads from the railway station to the town, is the Lohengrin Monument, erected to commemorate the legend of the Knight of the Swan, the scene of which is laid at Cleve. — On an eminence in the middle of the town rises the old Schloss or Schwanenburg (the court of which contains a Roman altar found in the neig hbourhood), now occupied by law-courts and a prison (restoration projected). In front of it rises a modern mon- ument to John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, who took pos- session of the Duchy of Cleve in 1609. Extensive views areobtained from the terrace in front of the Schloss and from the Schwanenturm (Cswan’s tower’; 184 ft. high), erected in 1493. — In the Kleine Markt rises a monument to the Great Elector, by Jennen and Breuer (1909). The Gothic Stiftskirche, a brick edifice of 1344- 56, contains several monuments of Counts and Dukes of Cleve. To the S.E. lies the Prinsenhof, built in 1664 by Maurice of Nassau-Siegen, when stadtholder of the duchy of Cleve. — By following the linden avenue named the Nassauer Allee and turning co 1 wo @ wD