. In those days, when Duke Karl II August of Zweibrücken resided at Karlsberg Castle, it served as a ‘Kavaliershaus’, where courtiers were accommodated: We are referring to that building on the slope of the Homburg Schlossberg, where, several decades later, the combative Provincial Commissioner Siebenpfeiffer ‘hatched’ his ideas of freedom and democracy. No less rebellious was Johann Georg August Wirth, who printed his newspaper *Deutsche Tribüne* in the house of the widow Dorothea Zöller on Eisenbahnstraße, whilst diagonally opposite, the Protestant vicarage of Dean Gottfried Weber became a secret meeting place for leading democrats: Such sites form part of the walking tour of Homburg organised by the Siebenpfeiffer Foundation on Thursday, 16 July. The tour focuses on those locations where German democratic history was made in the run-up to the Hambach Festival between 1830 and 1832.
“The people of Homburg are extremely liberal,” wrote Georg Fein, the writer and contributor to the *Deutsche Tribüne*, in a letter to his mother in 1832, and this quote also serves as the motto for the guided tour. The tour to the various stops is a very special stroll through the town centre. Participants can look forward to a dramatised, costumed tour: Monika Link, in the role of ‘Regina Wirth’, that is, the wife or widow of Johann Georg August Wirth, dressed in period costume, will recount all that she experienced during her turbulent time in Homburg, whilst her combative husband spent most of that time behind bars in Zweibrücken. The tour will take in, for example, the site where Siebenpfeiffer’s flat and the ‘Landcommissariat’ once stood, the Cappel inn, where the first of those numerous ‘banquets’ took place – which ultimately culminated in the Hambach Festival – and finally the Freiheitsbrunnen fountain at the Rondell. Participation is free of charge; the tour starts at 6 pm in the grounds of the Siebenpfeiffer House, Kirchenstraße 8. The tour lasts about an hour and a half; no prior registration is required.