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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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that jolly tavern was always the hot bed of radicalism. And in Luthers time it was the headquarters of the Reformation Club, which used to make it a base of supplies in their horseplay campaigns against the old fogy Catholics. It is easy to imagine what these zealous youths must have done to the Reformation chronicler Johannes Oldecop, Dean of the Holy Cross. For, upon the facade of his house around the corner, the old gentleman poured out all his bitterness against the new faith. His fury may be seen even in the jumbled order of the words, which read likea Chinese puzzle: Anno dm. 1549. Virtus, ecclesia. clerus demon, simonia. cessat. turbatur. errat. regnat. dominatur. verbum dnimanet in eternum nil nisi divinum stabile, humana laborant, lignea cum saxis sunt peritura (a.d. 1549. Virtue ceases, the church is in an uproar, the clergy has gone astray, the devil rules, simony reigns. Gods word remains for all eternity. The divine alone stands. The human is in peril. Wood and stonewill pass away.) 232
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THE ECKHMliCKliRSTRASSE HILDESHEIM AND FAIRYLAND Past the Square of the Holy Cross, where on December 28, 1221, the boy choristers were still celebrating with bonfires the heathen festival of the winter solstice (Sonnenwende), the way leads Am Platz and down the Friesenstieg to the Braunschweiger-Strasse, with its wealth of interesting houses. And at the head of the long Wollenweber-Strasse there comes a sight which one is glad to carry away as the final impression of this fairy town. Flanked by quaint carven houses, there rises, from the old city wall beyond, the beautiful Kehr-wieder Turm, or Turn-again Tower. Once upon a time when all the world was young, the little bell in this Kehrwieder Turm rang out for the Maid of Hildesheim as she was wandering, lost, in the deep woods down beyond the wall, calling her back to her beloved city. And to this day, as the Fountain of Trevi calls back to the sound of its murmuring waters all who have known the Eternal City, so the KehrwiederTurm forever r

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