The Rhine: Including the Black Forest & the Vosges; Handbook for Travellers

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K. Baedeker, 1911 - Black Forest (Germany) - 554 pages
 

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Page 104 - The castled crag of Drachenfels("> Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me ! 2.
Page iv - Go, little book, God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere, Unto them all that thee will read or hear, Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all.
Page 507 - Under the first gallery the symbolic deity of each day steps out of a niche, Apollo on Sunday, Diana on Monday, and so on. In the highest niche, at noon, the Twelve Apostles move round a figure of the Saviour.
Page 507 - On the highest pinnacle of the sidetower is perched a cock which flaps its wings, stretches its neck, and crows, awakening the echoes of the remotest nooks of the cathedraI.
Page 348 - Few towns can vie with it in the beauty of its environs and its historical interest. Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who became Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1155, selected Heidelberg as his principal residence, and under him and his successors the insignificant little place soon became a town of considerable importance. The extension and completion of the castle in the 16-17th cent, is one of the high-water marks of German art; its destruction by the French in 1688-9 and 1693 reminds us of the weakness...
Page 300 - Years' war (1762), and during the French wars (1792. 1796, 1799, 1800, 1806). Under Napoleon it became the capital, first of a principality, and then, in 1806, of a grand-duchy. From 1814 to 1866 it was one of the four free cities of the German Confederation, and in I860 it was taken by the Prussians.
Page 9 - John the Baptist was wrapped, and the linen cloth with which the Saviour was girded on the cross.

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