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Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
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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you come upon a mighty round towerembowered in trees beyond the waters of the Kahn-teich. It is the old Zwinger, largest of Goslarsoriginal one hundred and eighty-two towers of de-fense, and .capable of holding a thousand armoredwarriors. Or you happen upon an anomalous build-ing, a cross between church and dwelling, withcolumned windows, a generous spread of roof filledwith little dormers, and, above, a projection unde-cided whether to be a steeple or a chimney. Youventure through the Gothic portal and see longsweeps of raftered ceiling, and gloomy wooden bal-conies, and no end of tiny rooms where old womensit about knitting humbly and making, with theirsurroundings, the most delightful Dutch genre pic-tures of the sixteeenth century. Then one of the oldladies comes out, accepts a copper with deprecation,and quavers out that this is, please, the almshouse ofthe Great Holy Cross. Or you meander along the diminutive Gose River,that gave the city its name (lar is old Franconian for 192
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Tllli liRlSTTliCH GOSLAR IN THE HARZ home). You find a delightful mill, and fall tosketching—or wish that you could fall. And youbreak into the adjoining Glockengiesser-Strasse andthink of the bell-caster of Goslar who cast the fa-mous cathedral bells there and the spooky fountainin the INIarkt, and whose ancestor perhaps did theFour Rivers of Paradise in the Domkapelle. You appreciate the half-timbered dwellings somuch that your appetite is whetted for better ones.If you are persistent you find them at the head ofthe JNIarkt-Strasse. Crescit indulgens! The tastegrows upon you. Presently, unless you are very re-served or blase, you give a cry of pleasure. Youhave discovered the Brusttuch, a crooked late-Gothicgildliouse named after an indispensable part of thelocal peasants costume. It has an amazingly sharp,high ridge. Its lowest story is of picturesque roughstone; its second is half-timbered and filled with suchhomely, humorous carvings as riot along the streetsof Brunswick. Among

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