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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 130 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_138.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of berg able mud, and even though in the lower part ot the town trenches were dug to drain the streets, they remained mere swamps and morasses. In dry weather the dust was even a worse plague than the mud. I stood in front of the houses; and the streets were covered with heaps of fdth and manure and with rotting corpses of animals, over which the pigs wandered at will. Street police in fact was practically non-existent. Medievalism is undoubtedly better when survr As to the original extent of the city walls there are many theories. Most likely they embraced a very small district. According to Mummenhoff the first town wall ran from the west side of the Castle in a southerly direction over the modern Weinmarkt. (To reach it go straight down the Albert Du: starting from Durer's house.) Further on tl. struck eastwards (/) to the river, either leaving the swampy meadowland near the river free, or, as others hold, coming right down to the river banks. Then, leaving the river aoain near the SpitalplatZ, it stretched northward, apparently from the Malerthor which was then in existence, to the Romer Tower in the Tetzel- gasse.1 This tower was probably not actually part of the wall but a fortified house, such as may be seen in many German and Italian towns, built bv the dwellers in it for their own especial protection. A noble familv of the name of Romer lived there in early tin* gave their name to the house. But popular tradition has forgotten this fact and asserts that the tower dates back from Roman times. 1 We shall do well enough if we work down Winkle:- and then strik.- across (/ the Haupt Markt. pass through Hans Sachs Gasse, across tin Spiral Plat/., up tlu- ' ing Tucher Strasse and the top of Therstlen 1 which, short turns first to the left and then to the right bring us into I .4 sel G ■ so |