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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 123 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_131.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle, Walls and Fortifications The well which supplied the second plateau with water, the " Deep Well," Tiefer Brunncny as it is called, stands in the centre, surrounded by a wall. It is 335 feet deep, hewn out of the solid rock, and is said to have been wrought by the hands of prisoners, and to have been the labour of thirty years. So much we can easily believe as we lean over and count the six seconds that elapse between the time when an object is dropped from the top to the time when it strikes the water beneath. Passages lead from the waters edge to the Rathaus, by which prisoners came formerly to draw water, and to St, John's Churchyard and other points outside the town. The system of underground passages here and in the Castle was an important part of the defences, affording as it did a means of communication with the outer world and as a last extremity, in the case of a siege, a means of escape.1 the Empire, that now and henceforth they shall build and fortify with gates, doors, wails, moats, and other buildings. BM fortress of us and the Empire, with its accessories within and without, and look after them without let or hindrance. Further, it is our will and pleasure as King of Rome that this same fortress of us and of the Empire, shall in no way be separated or divided from the town of Nuremberg, hea we ourselves or our successors are not residing in person at N.f no one else shall inhabit the said castle, and wt rcree that no one else shall command it save only the Council o shall keep it faith fully for our successors and the Empire, as the Emperor Charks our father of holy memory and likewise King Ruprecht of good memory wrote and ordered to our fore- Ingdosa," 1 The original entrance to these passages cannot be determined now as the principal tower which might have been the n and tl; ace no longer exists. T be found in the Tower at the most we-r .tie groum: shall come to the subject of the subterranean passages in the next |