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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 135 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_143.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle^ W tificatit the river, and thence in like manner over the northern arm. The latter portion of it alone survives and comprises a large tower on the north bank called the Wasserthurm, which was intended to break the^rce of the m >ridge supported by two arcjy^over the stream, which was the Henketfjsjfe the habitation of the hangman or L'6b as he waa cjSB^of whom and of whose duties we shall have to speassjin the next chapter ; and on the island itself a smaller tower, which formed the point of support for the original, southern pair of arches, which joined the Unschlitthaus, but were so badly damaged in i 5^5 by a high flood that they were demolished and replaced by a wooden, and later by an iron bridge. After the great Wasserthurm, all trace of the old wall is lost. Probably it stretched in a straight line aero eintraubengasslein, along the back of the houses of the se, and across the Irrergasse to the Lammsgasse. Mummenhorf fancies that he can recognise one of the towers of it in an exceptionally high house on the north side of this latter street. There too stood the inner Neuthor. The houses at the back of AJbrccht-Durerstrasse show pretty clearly the further course of the wall until at the Thiergartnerthurm it finally joined the fortifications of th< Thus we have completed the second circuit of the old Imperial town as it was in the thirteenth and most of the lirst half of the fourteenth i was then t no mean size for the middle ages, but it a 1 its full developm New mo :nd churches and new suburbs sprang up outside the new line of fortification. As usi happens, the majority of the dwellers outside the walls were of the lower class: but, besides their houses, there were, especially towards the east, splendid gardens |