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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 29 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_041.jpg |
| Transcript | Origin and Growth citizens attacked their fortresses and burned them, and hanged the robbers from their own towers. J is, for instance, a document extant (1325) in which Ludwig grants immunity to the citizens of Nuremberg for having destroyed the castle "Zu dem Turm," which belonged to one Conrad Schcnk von Reicheneck, a robber-knight, and promisee the til never be rebuilt. Nor did the towns despise the advantages of combination. In 134O we find Nuremberg entering into a league, for mutual protection and the maintenance of peace, with the Dukes of Bavaria, with Wiirzburg, Rothenburg, etc., ami a number of spiritual and temporal lords. But if Nuremberg waxed in power and independence under the favour of Ludwig, the Burggra: had claims on the King. To him then given the office of Chief-Magistrate (Schuldheiss) and certain revenues from the town. This was not at all to the taste of the burghers. They grew restive under the Burggrafs abuse of justice, and finally managed to buy back the office from him through the agency of their rich citizen Conrad G . .uth whom the King often stayed. Conrad Gross wai an early specimen of that fine type of merchant princes who contributed so much in later days to the glory of Nuremberg. Barter- -trade in kind—was now giving place to trade done with money drawn from the German mines. The merchant prince began to raise his head. Whereas the trader had hitherto been despised as a shopkeeper by the free-knights, the merchant, who could indulge in luxury ot and household furniture, now began to look down on the knights as impecunious robbers. The time was at hand when the Italian A&fieafl Sylvius could write: — "When one comes from Lower Franconi* ami p glorious city, its splendour seams truly esagnluc |