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Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as in the land of the Christmas-tree and that sort ofthing. As I entered, a group of little children, in alltheir touching German artlessness, was moving outin front of the congregation. The vast throng stoodfor some moments in a profound silence, then sud-denly burst into the most beautiful congregationalsinging that I have ever heard. It was a fitting introduction to romantic Augs-burg, and I went away finally, to wander in a sort ofday-dream among the maze of little brooks andcanals that make the southeastern quarter so pictur-esque, where the dwellers in fascinating old cottageshave had to bridge a merry little river to get to theirown flower-gardens. Here Augsburgs greatest son,the younger Holbein, was born, and a wall is stillthere, covered with the colored arabesques that hedrew in his sixth year. There was the quaint littleFuggerei, a town within a town, which one of theFuggers built to house the local poor on conditionthat they pay a gulden a year as rent, and daily offer 354
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AUGSBURG up to heaven a paternoster, an Ave Maria, and acredo, for the help and comfort of all Fugger souls. The best came last; for as I turned into the Jako-ber-Strasse, there was spread out such a vision ofOld-World Germany as I had not dreamed of find-ing in Augsburg, the portal of Italy. An unbrokenarray of old houses swung down into the distance,with gables lofty and low, sharp and blunt, severe asa pyramid, or undulating like a maidens curls, glow-ing with all the colors of the sunset, full of shapelywindows and flowering balconies and wooden saintsenshrined, set off against the richly weathered wallsand ruddy tiles of a huge tanners tower; and, withtheir perfect rhythm, leading the eye down to wherea Gothic gate closed the prospect with the mellowmasonry of its arches and the vivid green patina ofits pointed tower. The ideal place to take ones leave of Augsburg isbeside the crumbling ramparts where, deep under-foot, the shattered marbles of the Roman city lie;where grasses clo

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