The novel “Royal Dreams”
Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1994
The German Newspaper Portal is a free online archive of the German Digital Library containing German and some foreign newspapers from several centuries. Launched in October 2021, it initially included newspapers from 1671 to 1994 and is continuously expanding. It proved to be an ideal source for searching for Forkers, and we found what we were looking for!
Some of the scanned documents could not be fully recognized; individual letters were not entirely legible.
Intelligence Gazette, Thursday, February 9, 1866: Original reprint of a novel by Anna Löhn-Siegel.
The entire novel, from issue no. 7-11, can be found here: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/2842460-8
The title is “Königsträume” (King’s Dreams), and according to Jochen, it describes the area between Rathewalde and Hohnstein, in the ancestral home of our Forker family. A key character is a Forker who offers his help.