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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 141 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_148.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle, Walls and Fortifeati The Wiihrderthurlein and the Hallerthiirlein were constructed probably about the same time as the Vest- nerthor—i.e. circ. 1430. It was against the gates that the main attacks of the enemy were usually delivered, and they were therefore provided with the most elaborate means of defence. Each principal gate in fact was an individual castle, a separate keep: for it was defended by one of those huge round towers which still help to give to Nuremberg its characteristic appearance. The Laufer, Spittel, and Frauen towers, and the tower near the new gate were built in the above order in their present cylindrical shape ^9) by the architect George Unger, on the site of four quadrilateral towers that already existed. The towers are about 60 yards in diameter. They are furnished on the ground story with one or two gun-casemates, which would command the parapet wall if that were taken. Above, beneath the flat roof, is fixed a platform blinded with wood relieved by embrasures capable of receiving a considerable number of cannon. Guns indeed were in position here as : . hen together with all the contents of the arsenal they were removed I ns. At the time of the construction of these and the other lofty towers it was still thought that the raising of b s much as possible would increase their effect. In practice the plunging fire from H at the height of some eighty feet above the level of the parapets of the town wall can hardly have been capable of producing anv feet, more especially if the besieging force succeeded in establishing itself on the crest of the counterscarp of the d ce from that point the swell of the bastions masked the towers. But eras another use for these lofty towers. The fact is that the Nuremberg engineers, at the time that they were built, had not yet adopted a complete 141 |