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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 119 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_127.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle, Wall 'ifications adjoining it commands a splendid view to the north. There, too, on the parapet-wall, may be seen the hoof- marks of the horse of the robber-knight, Ekkelein von Gailingen, whose story we have already narrated (p. 43). Here for a moment let us pause, consider our position, and endeavour to make out from the conflicting theories of the archaeologists something of the original arrangement of the casdes and of the significance of the buildings and towers that yet remain. Stretching to the east of the rock on which the ds is a wide plain, now the scene of busy industrial enterprise, but in old days no doubt a mere district of Westwards the rock rises by tht pet to the summit. The entrance to the C surmised, was originally on the east side, at the foot of the lower plateau and through a tower which no longer exists. Opposite this hypothetical gate-tower stood the ornered tower. The lower part dates, we have seen, from no earlier than the eleventh century. It M referred to as Alt-Niirnberg (old Nuremberg) in the Middle Ages. The tide of "Five-cornered" ii really somewhat a misnomer, for an examination of the interior of the lower portion of the tower reveals the fact that it is quadrangular. The pentagonal appearance of the exterior is due to the fragment of a smaller tower which once leant against it, and probably formed the apex of a wing running out from the old casde of the Burggrafs. The Burggrafliche Burg stood below, according to Mummenhof, soutl - and west of this point. It was burnt down in 1420, and the ruined remains of it are supposed to be traceable in the eminence, now overgrown by turf and trees, through which a sort of ravine, closed in on either side by built-up walls, has just brought us from the town to the Yestner Thor. The Burggrafs' Castle would 119 |