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Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tivating corner oriel. This building, with its bitof walled garden, was once the Jewish dance-house.Old Jewish baths are still to be seen in the cellars. From the Wiirzburg Gate, as from so many of theothers, there looks down a stone face, probably theportrait of a would-be traitor; and inside of the arch-way a mysterious profile is roughly chiseled—a pro-file about which one hears all sorts of contradictoryreports. This northern part of the town wall is the best pre-served, for it was built according to the theories ofVitruvius, and is the foremost example of its kind.On its broad top the maidens dance after the festivalplay. Here my friends, two young American paint-ers, once gave their memorable Fourth of July cele-bration, and, after the fireworks, were carried homeon the shoulders of the delighted inhabitants, anevent that will doubtless be talked of in Rothenburgfor generations. I walked to the Klingen Gate along the gallery.This passage has never been much used except for 376
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FOUNTAIN IN THU KAIEI.I.EN-PLATZ THE CITY OF DREAMS defense, but its deeply worn pavement is eloquent ofthe towns martial history. I found it the haunt ofrope-makers, with hemp flying from their girdles andlodged in their flaxen whiskers. Many of the loop-holes were walled up, but through the open ones Icaught rare little vignettes of flowering moat and apleasant countryside in bloom. The Klingen Gate, with its side turrets, rivals theStoberlein Tower, with its corner ones, for the dis-tinction of being Rothenburgs most beautiful tower.From the wall here a dark stairway winds down intothe little Church of the Shepherds. Some centuries ago the local Jews were believed tohave conspired to poison the fountains, murder thewatch, and make Rothenburg in very deed into a newJerusalem. But the shepherds of the neighborhooddiscovered and published the plot. As a reward, theywere allowed, until late in the eighteenth century, tohold an annual festival in honor of this event. Itbegan with a serv

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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Schauffler__Robert_Haven__1879_1964
  • booksubject:Cities_and_towns____Germany
  • booksubject:Germany____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Century_Co_
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