Trossachs

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A hole in the Trossachs
" John Ruskin at Glenfinlas in the Trossachs" painted by John Everett Millais 1853–4

The Trossachs ( listen ? / I ; Gaelic : Na Trosaichean ) are a small wooded valley ( glen ) in Stirling , a council area in Scotland . It is between Ben A'an to the north and Ben Venue to the south, Loch Katrine to the west and Loch Achray to the east. However, the name is usually also used for the wider area of ​​wooded valleys, slopes and lakes in the east of Ben Lomond . The Lake of Menteith , one of the few Scottish lakes not designated as " Loch ", is ten kilometers in the southeast of the Glens, on the edge of the area around the Trossachs. Audio file / audio sample

popularity

The scenic charms of the region became known through Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake from 1810. Scott's 1817 historical follow-up novel Rob Roy romanticizes the outlawed cattle thief Raibert Ruadh , who was born near Loch Katrine and buried near Balquhidder .

Tourism and development

The effect of Scotts' romantic literature was a huge influx of tourists and the establishment of a hotel, notably the Trossachs Hotel, which was built on the north bank of Loch Achray. The hotel still stands today as part of the An Tigh Mor Trossachs vacation rentals.

Loch Katrine changed a lot in 1859 when a dam and associated aqueducts were built at the east end to move a new water main to Glasgow . Queen Victoria built a holiday home with a good view of the lake at the expense of the Glasgow waterworks . The Royal Cottage was never used by her and ended up being the home of Scottish Water staff. A steamship connection has been established and the 1900 SS Sir Walter Scott is still in service. The area is now part of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park .

Ruskin

The leading critic of Victorian art , John Ruskin (1819-1900), and the painter John Everett Millais (1829-1896) spent the summer of 1853 at Glenfinlas in the Trossachs. Millais began a portrait of John Ruskin during the visit, which he completed the following year. The painting is privately owned but was shown during an exhibition by Tate Britain in London in 2004. John Ruskin himself was very interested in the rock formations in the area and made his own studies on them.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruskin and Millais at Glenfinlas , The Burlington Magazine , Vol. 138, No. 1117, pp. 228-234, April 1996.
  2. ↑ Information from the Tate Gallery

Web links

Commons : Trossachs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 56 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  N , 4 ° 25 ′ 17 ″  W.