Walk in von Moltke’s footsteps today and you see much the same sights. But some are missing, notably a footbridge, which was intended to appear ruined and beneath which flowed a powerful stream of water. A few hundred yards past it, one would have heard a strange sound, now also long gone—an insistent clattering and puffing, emanating from within a villa that would not have seemed out of place in Renaissance Florence. Entering, one would have seen a steam engine, one of the earliest in Prussia and designed by an engineer trained in England.
