Budweis

Budweis, a town in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, at the junction of the Moldau and the Maltsch, and 133 miles from Vienna, is a well built city with some fine public buildings, including a 16th century cathedral with detached tower. There are considerable manufactures of pottery, blacklead, nails, sugar, and liqueurs; and in the mountains near the town are gold and silver mines. The first railway made in Germany - for horse, traction - was from Budweis to Linz.