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Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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churches, or to visitthe old German painters in the gallery, or to studythe style of Elias HoUs architecture, or to make therounds of all the interesting old houses. I wished tocatch again the unique feeling of the place—the at-mosphere of proud Italian opulence that made itshighways a fit resort for princes, combined with thenative Old-World glamour of its intimate, homelybyways. It was Sunday morning, and I sought the cathedral,a building too old, on the whole, to participate archi-tecturally in Augsburgs grand manner. At the Dietof 1530, the famous Augsburg Confession was pre-sented to the Emperor in the episcopal palace oppo-site. And legend relates that Martin Luther, fleeingfrom one of these diets after dark, in fear of his life,lost his way in the St. Gallus-Gasschen, whereuponthe devil came and pointed out a little gate in the citywall, with the words, Da hinab. (Down there.)The Reformer went, and found a saddled ass and aservant to help along his flight. The evil one de- 3U
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THE NORTH PORTAL OF THE CATHEDRAL AUGSBURG parted chuckling, feeling that he had done a deedworthy of his reputation. And the place is calledDakinah to this day. The cathedral nave was crowded with rapt wor-shipers. I stood near the four altarpieces paintedby that famous Augsburger, the elder Holbein; andlooking from them to the rows of earnest faces, Irealized that these conservative people had notchanged even the type of their features for over fourhundred years. Here were anachronistic costumes as well—peas-ant women with limp black head-dresses, gay neck-erchiefs of white and rose and yellow, flaming shortskirts of blue, pleasantly overlaid with buff aprons.And there were short-jacketed Holbein men whowore odd silver coins for buttons. Orchestra, organ, and choir made sonorous musicin the Gothic balcony. The officiating clergy showedsplendid in their gold and silver vestments againstthe sculptures and the delicate pinnacles of the highaltar. The priceless old stained glass of th

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