Dec 22, 2020
5 min read
The Count, the Washerwoman, and the Asylum
What would you sacrifice for true love?
It was a story right out of a fairy tale.
In 1905, Count Francis Erasmus von Erbach-Erbach was riding through the woods of his ancestral estates in Germany, when he chanced upon a young woman, Dora Fischer, who was gathering sticks in the forest. Fischer, when not collecting firewood, assisted her…
