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 114 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_123.jpg |
Transcript | H CHAPTER V The Castle, the Walls and Medieval Fortifications '• Aufwarts Ich mit den AltSfl ging Nach doer kOni^Uchen \reste, Am Fels erhaiu-r auf (fa Bl Manch Thurm auf PelsvefSprftsgSfl lag, Darin ein kaiserlich Gemach. Geziert nach meisterliehen Sinnen Die Fenster warm and die Zfamefl j Darum tin Graben war gehaaea In harten Fels." —Hans Sachs, XT U REM BERG is set upon a series of small slopes in the midst of an undulating, sandy plain, some 900 feet above the sea. Here and there on side fringes and patches of the mighty forest which once covered it are still visible; but for the most par: the plain is now freckled with picturesque villages, in which stand old turreted chateaux, with gabled fronts and latticed windows, or it is clothed with carefully cultivated crops or veiled from sight by the smoke which rises from the new-grown forest of factory chimneys. The railway sets us down outside the walls of the city. As we walk from the station towards the Frauen Thor, and stand beneath the crown of fortified walls three and a half miles in circumference, and gaze at the old grey towers and picturesque confusion of domes, pinnacles and spires, suddenly it seems as if I 14 |