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 293 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_292.jpg |
Transcript | Tin Arms emberg I maiden, described hy even a modern historian as an 4i Eagle- Maiden." In quite recent times a mural crown has been set upon her head. We will pass over the jesting explanations formerly given for this seeming Eagle-Maiden, which would be unt eed only mention hen the arm- are -et out in colours the eagle is Or and the field Azure and very often Vert). These three coats-of- arms counting the seals as coats arranged in different ways mployed on public monuments, buildings and coins, and afterwards on all publications, commissions, ordinanc ..illy the simple eagle is at the top. the so-called Eagle-Maiden below on the right, and the Bends impaling the dimidiated eagle on the left. Frequently. allv on the coins, only the eagle-maiden and the dimidiated >metimes also we find the Imperial eagle without the shield -urmounting the two Ion and. as lug them v Bga. louble-htaded crowned eagle also frequently occurs. ample on the old Fiinferhaus fnow the Post-Office) with the date 1511, Here it a;pear> aloe on the ibrunnen it is associated with the eagle-maiden and the impaled dimidiated eagle I employed on the eastern part of ttie city wall, both on the bastion near the W h<!. rthiirlein (pulled down in 187O and on the line of wall. A really handsome example of this double- headed eagle i* to be seen on the entrance to the new Rathau- building from rhe Fiinferplatz. Thi- eagle dates from t: nth century and was formerly placed on the nuentljr bears the inscription:— I ehr m Niirnbergs Wohlstand und Ehr." .;>on> and steel . r of Nuremberg's honour and weal." aer it appears to have been left to the her in such combinations this the real Imperil r the one-headed, uncrowned eagle of the |