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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 147 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_154.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle, Walls a$ tif cations on the inside, in such a way as to present an obstacle to the balls or arrows fired by the assailants placed on the top of the glacis. outer, like the inner wall was provided with towers. These were thicker in construction but lower and less numerous than the interior ones. They were placed at intervals of 200 to 25c feet and amounted in all to forty or thereabouts. The chief purpose of them was to flank and command the ditch and thus to prevent the enemy from building a dam across it. With this obje projected some distance into the ditch. Simultaneously with the alterations of the exterior wall small bastion-like towers were also constructed, chiefly at places where the wall formed an angle, and where the enemy could not therefore advance in line. From these towers a searching fire could be maintained in all directions, sweeping both the ditch and the ground in front. The strong, low, semi-circular tower at the Haller Thor is supposed to be the oldest work of this description. Lastly, in the second half of the sixteenth century, the large bastions which bring us in touch with modern ideas of fortification were built. V\ nstance the bastion adjoining the Neue Thor, called the Doktors Zwinger because the doctors had their summer garden there. And in 1613 the Vr6hrderthor-Zwinge: added to the old town-wall. It was designed by Meinhard \ iberg, and built by Jakob Wolf, the younger. But fa :iis magnificent structure, with the armo: sea which decorated the four corners of it, was enclosed in the Vestner Thor Z winger. An account of the fortifications of Nuremberg would be incomplete if no mention were made of the Landivchr—| continuous line of defence which was |