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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 11 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_024.jpg |
| Transcript | Origin and Growth Henry IV. whose scene at Canossa with the Pope— Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting three days in the snow to kiss the foot of excommunic. • Gregory—has impressed itself on all memories. His last visit to Nuremberg was a sad one. His son rebelled against him, and the old king stopped at Nuremberg to collect his forces. In the war between father and son Nuremberg was loyal, and took the part of Henry IV. It was no nominal part, for in I 105 she had to stand a siege from the young Henry. For two months the town was held by the burghers and the castle by the Pra-fect Conrad. At the end of that time orders came from the old Kaiser that the town was to surrender. He had given up the struggle, and undutiful son succeeded as Henry V. to the German Empire,1 and Nuremberg with it. nion of this siege gives us an indication of the growth of the town. The fact of the siege and the words of the chronicler, "The townsmen (oppidani) gave up the town under treaty," seem to point to the conclusion that Nuremberg was now no longer a mere fort (eastrum), but that walls had sprung up round the busy mart and the shrine of St. Sebald, and that bv this time Nuremberg had risen to the dignity oi it M or city state. Presently, indeed, we find her rejoicing in the title of " Civitas." The place, it is . ;s alread\ considerable military importance or it would not have been worth while to invest it. The growing volume of trade is further illustrated by a charter of Henry V. (11 12) giving to the citizens of Worms Zollfreiheit in various places subject to him, amongst which Frankfort, Goslar and Nuremberg are named as royal towns [oppida regis). 1 Few things provoked the late Professor Freeman more than for men to talk qui Empir Roman Empire i« tin- corrt-cter p1 |