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Title: Germany
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
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Publisher: London : Low
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e beginning of last century a hunting-lodgein a forest, is now the centre of government forthe Grand Duchy of Baden, and nothing else.Speyer, one of the oldest cities of Germany, is onthe Rhine bank. It was the capital of the Nemeti,and is adorned with a venerable cathedral. Worms,of like age, is the scene of the Nibelungen poem,and was the residence of the East Frank kings.Its importance as a trading-place is destroyed byMannheim, more conveniently planted on thetongue of land between the Rhine and the Neckar,atown of modern origin, owing its birth to a disputeover a church at Heidelberg between the Elector-Palatine, Charles Phillip, in 1720, and the citizensof Heidelberg. Mannheim, Darmstadt, and Karls-ruhe dispute the claim to be the ugliest towns inEurope, and probably in the world. Mannheim isthe most regularly-built town in Germany, beingdivided into 100 square sections like a chess-board ;Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy ofHesse, is nearly as regular, but almost incon-
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THE MID-MOUNTAIN REGION. 85 ceivably mean in its public and private buildings.Karlsruhe is built like a fan, the streets radiatingfrom the palace. Some of the earliest buildingsof the old rococo style are not unpleasing, but themodern Romanesque erections are vulgar to thelast degree. On the other hand, Freiburg, Baden-baden, and Heidelberg, may well contend which isthe loveliest spot and most charming residence.Frankfurt occupies a central position on the greatroads, and this has ensured it a splendid mercantilehistory. To the north-east lies the fertile Wetterau,through which descend the rivers Wetter andNidda. The Main is navigable by as large vesselsas those in the Rhine as far up as Hanau. Frank-furt lies on the line from Italy and Switzerland toBremen and Hamburg, and on that which connectsBelgium and France with Bohemia, Bavaria, andAustria. Here the roads of the Main, Elbe, Weser,the Upper and Lower Rhine, cross, and no otherpoint in Germany is so advantageously situatedfor wa

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