Title | The story of Nuremberg |
Creator (LCNAF) |
|
Contributor (Local) |
|
Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
Subject.Topical (LCSH) |
|
Subject.Geographic (TGN) |
|
Genre (AAT) |
|
Language | English |
Type (DCMI) |
|
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 121 |
Format (IMT) |
|
File Name | exotic_201304_001_129.jpg |
Transcript | 'stir. Walt by purchase into the hands of the town (1427), there were various other similar guard towers, such as the one which formerly occupied the present site of the Luginsland, or the Hasenburg at the so-called Himmels Thor, or a third which once stood near on the second plateau of the Castle rock. But we do not know how many of these there were, or where they stood, much less at what date they were built. All we do know is that they, as well as the Burggrafs' possessions, were purchased in succession by the town, into whose hands by degrees came the whole property of the Castle rock. Above the ruins ot the t4 little fort M of the Burggrafs 1 a of the Castle rock. surrounded by a wal'. nened on the south side (/) by a square tower ... iich leans the purgiskapclle. The path to rburg leads under the wall of the plateau, and is entirely commanded by 'it and by the quadrangular tower, the lower part of which alone : 1 is known bv the name of Burgamt- mannswohnung (r). The path goes straight to this tower, and at the foot of it is the entrance to the first plateau. Then along the edge of this plateau the way winds southwards (/), er mmanded again by the wall of the second plateau, at the foot of which there probably used to be a trench. Over this a bridge led to the gate of the second plateau. The trench has been long since filled in, but the huge round to\v( w guarded the gate still re and is the \ • n (r).1 The Vestner Thurm or Sinwel Thurm (aft vjnd), or. ,s called in I charter of the the "Turm 1 linm. 'urn tD rlu- plateau ea. Fri'iii; 1 2 1 |