Caub

Caub, a town in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, on the right bank of the Rhine, 30 miles WNW. of Wiesbaden by rail. Here Blücher crossed the Rhine with his army, January 1, 1814; and here, too, till 1866, toll was levied by the Duke of Nassau—the only ruler who kept up this feudal privilege—from vessels navigating the Rhine. Caub has underground slate-quarries; and opposite, on an island in the river, where Louis le Débonnaire died in 840, is a castle called the Pfalz, built in 1326, which is said to have been resorted to for safety by the Countesses Palatine during childhood. In 1876 and 1879 Caub was the scene of two serious landslips. Pop. 2179.