… the building of the base of the cursed Inner Circle. This was to be built beneath property considerably more desirable and expensive even than those in the District's suburbs, and the costs of way leaves, of compensation, underpinning and outright purchases would prove crippling.

... if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.

Although in the published version of 1815, this sylvan scene of vespertine quietude does not refer to anywhere in particular, the poem was originally written in response to a specific place: on 6 September 1780 Goethe penciled it onto the wooden wall of a hunting hut on a forested hilltop, the Kickelhahn, near Ilmenau.

The bellows-type meter can withstand overranges up to the safe working pressure of the housing in either direction without damage or the slightest shift in zero or calibration .