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 122 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_130.jpg |
Transcript | The Story of Nuremberg in der Mitte," is the only round tower of the Burg. It was built in the days of early Gothic, with a sloping base, and of roughly flattened stones with a smooth edge. It was partly restored and altered in 1561, when it was made a few feet higher and its round roof was added, worth paying the small gratuity required for ascending to the top. The view obtained of the city below is magnificent. The her Thurm, like the whole Imperial castle, passed at length into the care of ■ kl '< III; VESTNER T1UKM the town, which kept its Tower watch here as carh as the fourteenth century.1 1 It was hy the following charter of 1422 that King Sigmumi gats the Reichsburg over to the Council: — "We hereby order and command tlu- Bun I .Hindi, and citizens, as they ;nc trUC ami faithful mi! .mil ot' 122 |