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Title: Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York C. Scribner
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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Room VI. Ecclesiastical antiquities. — Room VII. Naturalhistory collections. In the Court are tombstones and an old wooden gallery. From the KW. corner of the market-place we may proceedeither through the Judengasse or the Brndergasse and the Rosen-gasse to the Staufengasse, which leads to (5 min.) the Kaiserbtjrg,or Imperial Castle (PI. A, B, 1; adm. 40 h), situated on a rockabove the river. It was erected by Frederick Barbarossa after hismarriage in 1149 to Adelheid of Vohburg. Uninhabited since 1634,it has been a ruin since 1742, and now belongs to the city. The lofty square Keep, built of blocks of lava, belonged to an earliercastle of the Margraves of Vohburg; the brick superstructure was addedin the 17th cent, as a gun-battery. — A little to the right of the en-trance is the double *Chapel (13th cent.), externally a building of littlepretentions. The round-arched vaulting of the lower chapel, with itsoctagonal cupola, is borne by four massive granite piers, while the pointed
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FRANZEKSBAD. 46. Route. 321 vaults of the upper chapel are supported by four slender marble columns. — The Palas, to the N. of the chapel, was built at the end of the 12th cent,by Frederick I. It contains the relics of the banquet-room, in whichWallensteins officers Illo, Terczky, Kinsky, and Neumann were murdereda few hours before Devereux assassinated his general; the remains includetwo walls, with three Eomanesque windows separated by colonnettes.The terrace-, 80 ft. above the Eger, commands a pleasing view. The Kirchengasse, to the right of the Stadthaus (p. 320), leadsto (1 min.) the handsome church of the deanery of St. Nicholas(PI. B, C, 1), a Gothic building of 1460-75, with nave and aisles ofequal height. The W. portal and the lower part of the E. towersretain fragments of the earliest, transitional building of ca. 1230.The early-Gothic choir was added soon after 1270. — Pleasantpromenades ascend both banks of the Eger. The Miihlerl (p. 322)is an attractive goal for a mot

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