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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 132 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_140.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nurem of the place and of coming upon the most picturesque bits of old Nuremberg than to work round the three lines of fortifications sketched here) -we will start again from the Maxthor, the nineteenth-century gateway on the north side of the town. From the Fi turm, which is near at hand, the wall ran alongside of the seven rows of houses (Zeilen) which were built by the Council in 14NS (on the old moat which had been fdled in) for the immigrating Swabiai ; and then from the Webersplatz by the Landauerkloster (used at the present time as a polytechnic school) straight down to the Lauferschlagturm. This tower, also called the inner Lauferturm, dates in its present form from the fifteenth century and in part from the sixteenth century. It derives its name from the ing clock which was put op in 147S, at a period when clocks with bells to mark the hours were still rare. Proceeding past the Lauferschlagturm we can trace clearly enough the shooting-trench, which was a- to the cross-bowmen in 148 5 and runs on to foundry of the coppersmiths " Auf deni Presently before reaching the Pegnitz the wall made a sharp turn to the west: it is uncertain whether the present Neuegasse (which we must follow) ran inside or outside of it ; at any rate the Mohler or Mahler Tho: (Miillerthor) stood at the spot where the II and Neuegasse run into the Spitalplat/. I e \ingthe Mohlerthor the wall crossed the SpltalplatZ (/)and ran in a straight line, strongly protected by towers, across the two arms of the Pegnitz which encircle the S Island. In the northern arm of the river, near the Synagogue (/), you may still distinguish a bit of ruined wall overgrown by alders, rising out of the water. This is the remains of the pier which once buttressed the town-wall against the current of the Pegnitz. On the island there are still two towers, the larger of the 132 |