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Title: Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England : souvenir of the North German Lloyd, Bremen
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Norddeutscher Lloyd
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Publisher: Berlin : J. Reichmann & Cantor
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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k growth of treesnow comes into view with its tower-ing church steeple. Kortsch is worthinspecting more closely, as it is oneof the best specimens of a Tyrolesevillage, untouched by the influencesof modern civilisation, we shall find.Notice particularly the fine old Wellen-zonhaus, with its enormous gables,bow-windows and frescoed walls.Schlanders is a good place to makea noon halt, as we shall be sure toget a good dinner at the Post orKreuz, inns which enjoy a goodreputation. In the public room wefind the natives discussing the pro-babilities of the newly projected rail-way, and where the station is to bebuilt, reminding us of some remotevillage in the State of Maine, wherelike questions are as hotly debated.Schlanders boasts of a fine Gothicchurch. Shortly before reachingLatsch, near the hamlet of Schanz,at the entrance to the Martell valley,is the little village of MOrter and atthe foot of the Vlatschberg are theruins of Upper and Lower Montanwith an old chapel dedicated to St. 298
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I •8 £ ^ ^> o g 299 Stephen. Montan is famous from thefact, that there Beda Weber foundthe manuscript of the NiebelungenLied, besides a German translationof the Decameron, printed in 1840,also a printed copy of the Statutesof the German Empire, and a parch-ment manuscript of the Gospels inAllemanian dialect of the year 1300.Weber sold the Nibelungen to thebookseller Asher for 300 gulden, whosold it to a party in England for2000 thaler, from whom it was boughtback by Berlin parties for, it is said,2000 pounds! The castle has com-pletely fallen to decay, the coat-of-arms,chiselled in white marble, alone re-minding us of former splendor. Oppo-site the Castle, above Schloss Gold-rain, on the left bank of the Etsch,are the ruins of an old castle, oncethe seat of the powerful family of theAnnenberger. It was built in thetwelfth century, and is said to havederived its name from a town of thesame name in Saxony. The membersof the family, which became extinctin 1658, are buried in the Sp

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