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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 168 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_174.jpg |
| Transcript | / ?/ Nuremberg I) in the forest nea: I) • ndteich. It was used to despatch envoys, and M a meal and escape for, the Senate in troublous times. The which we follow was constructed about 1543. It runs beneath the streets towards the Castle, making a circuitous course and passing under the Albrecht l)iircr Plat/. It height from 3 to 7 feet, and, as it nears the Castle, is hewn out of the living rock. Presently we pass on the right the passage which leads down to the Deep Well (see Chap. V.); and then at emerge first into the Thiergutnerthorthorni and then on to the * bastion—the Schlosszwinger. This DS now a well-kept garden, ami the empty, spreading emb: for guns are now 1 Our guide leads us out into the Burgstrasse. A few years ago it was possible to descend again into the pastas the inner .side ot the town-wall anil pass into the Castle dungeon the secret prison of the Vehme-Gericht. rgrotind panagCI led thither both from their own tribunal—a hall now I m the Pannier-Gasse—and from the private residences of the Senators. There, too, was that deep and dismal abyss1 which was wont u of the prisoners, mostly of rank, who had been condemned to " kiss the maiden M—(tie verfluchte du He upon whom doom had been passed V/as I after . pent in her pi t0 the embraces ot the famous female ligure, which stands to-day with Sphinx-like placidity 10 th- < I ■ duallv 1 Ths iron Maiden i- ihewn now in d Tower. This i> not. ■ Its original position. Nor is it profitable to inquire h<>w fai thfl Ifl are the actual original ones ; for tlu- collection of Torture Instruments. Rings, l'i. ; which used to be sh< Nuremberg, arc now t! m Earl of SI 168 |