Translations:Minette Blaufuß (Da VII 4)/11/en

The wish to move close to a town came true shortly after the peace agreement. He bought an estate in Neuried, near Munich, called "Neunerhof" and planned to establish a reformatory there. It was a farmstead with 40 Tagwerk of fields (an old German surface measure; one Tagwerk corresponds to approximately 3,408 m²), a residential house, and a farm building, two horses, eight cows, poultry, hares, and all inventory in good condition. We arrived in Munich at the beginning of October, with the cheaper Oktoberfest train, and were met at the station by Uncle Schneider who took us to his apartment in the street Rumfordstrasse, where we all spent the night with our precautionary Aunt Jakobine. The next day, we first visited Uncle Fritz and Uncle Johannes, who lived close to each other at the time, and then went to Neuried. We spent a short happy time there. Everything was new to us, and the most pleasant thing was that the Catholic inhabitants of Neuried did not show the slightest fanaticism towards the Protestant newcomers, but even obliged us in a very neighborly way. – My father followed a few weeks later, already ill. On the train, which was not heated at the time, he had caught a cold which developed into double pneumonia of which he died on December 4, 1871. He was buried by the Munich priest Wilhelm Rodde, who proved to be a good friend of the family once again.