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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 138 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_146.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nun n/berg enemy a good deal of trouble to cross it. A the ditch had been made and perhaps revetted as early as 1407, but it was not till twenty years later that it began to be dug to the enormous breadth which it boasts to-day. The size of it was always a source of pride to the Nurembergers, and it was perhaps due to this reason that up till as recent it was left perfectly intact. On the av< about IOO feet broad. It was alwavs intended to be ditch, and, so far from there being any arrangements for flooding it, precautions were taken to carry the little Fischbach, which formerly entered the town near the modem Sternthor, across the ditch in a trough. The construction of the ditch was provided for by an order of the Council in 1427, to the effect that all householders, whether male or female, must \v« the ditch one day in the year with their children of over twelve yean of age, and with all their servants, male or female. Those who were not able to work had to pay a substitute. Subsequently this order was changed to the effect that who could or would not work must pay ten pfennige (one p There were no exemptions from this liturgy, whether in favour of councillor, official, or lady. The order remained ten years in force, though the amount of the payment was gradually reduced. Whilst the enceinte was in course 0 SI the Burggraf Frederic VI. M>ld (1428) to the town the ruins of his castle. Steps were immediately taken therefore to fortify the whole of tin ( rounds with ditch and large revetted circular Stromer was the director of the works. At this time we first find distinct mention of the Vestner Thor, and the Vestnerthorbriicke. The other main Neue Thor, the Spittler Thor, the Franco the Laofer Thor had begun to be built about |