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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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secret, andthe eldest child brings toward the mother a basketof flowers as though moving through some preciousspiritual rite. One returns repeatedly to worshipbefore this painting as before a shrine and to realizewhy its spell could not be as potent elsewhere as inthis city of homes. Just as the Rathaus and the Gewandhaus aresubsidiary to the dwellings of Brunswick, so are theother noteworthy buildings: all but two; for the aris-tocratic castle and cathedral are exceptions. Butit must be remembered that these are both memorialsof the maker of Brunswicks fortunes and her great-est ruler, Henry the Lion, whose death ended thedays when the B runs wickers were content to be gov-erned by any one man. In the ninth century. Burg Dankwarderode wasbuilt by the brother of that Bruno who foundedBrunswick, calling it Brunonis Vicus. Three hun-dred years later it was sumptuously rebuilt by Henrythe Lion; but during the centuries of democraticagitation that followed it was ruined, over-crusted, 16G
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BRUNSWICK and forgotten. Finally, in recent days, some ofHenrys noble arches and capitals were discoveredand made the basis of the present restoration, whichis a masterpiece of its kind, a worthy mate ofthe Marienburg in East Prussia. Henrys famousbronze lion in the little Burg-Platz outside, which hasguarded his name for the last seven hundred years,snarls ferociously at you when you dare to won-der why the cathedral exterior is so unassuming.Indeed, the great burgher churches were all builton this general scheme, with a plain, massive westernfront, a lofty bell-house riding high between twotowers, and a long, low nave, like a giant dachshundat the heels of his master. On entering the cathedral you see that the magnifi-cence was all saved for the interior as a setting forHenrys famous Gothic tomb before the altar. Thearchitecture runs a brilliant scale from early Roman-esque to the fantastic, spiral-ribbed piers of the late-English Gothic. The place is filled with treasures. On the w

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