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Identifier: 15202284.5282.emory.edu
Title: Southern Germany, including Wurtemberg and Bavaria: handbook for travellers
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : Karl Baedeker
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very ancient town (pop. 13,850)on the Danube, lies in an extensive and fertile plain, the granaryof Bavaria. The late-Gothic church of *St. James (1429-1512) con-tains paintings attributed to Wohlgemut, a fine altar with statues ofthe year 1500, and good stained glass (1442 and 1503). The Ro-manesque church of St. Peter, in the cemetery on the lofty bank ofthe Danube, passes for the oldest building in the town and is sup-posed to occupy the site of the Roman Serviodurum. The GothicOymnasialkirche (of 1430), formerly the church of the Carmelites,contains the fine monument of Duke Albert II. (d. 1397). TheSchloss (now barracks) was once occupied by Duke Albert III. withhis wife Agnes Bernauer (p. 114), the beautiful daughter of a barberof Augsburg. Her father-in-law Duke Ernest, exasperated by hissons mesalliance, cruelly and unjustly caused her to be condemnedto death and thrown into the Danube from the bridge (1435). Herremains were interred in the churchyard of St. Peter, as recorded
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PASSAU. 42. Route. 237 by an inscription on a marble slab in the Agnes Bernauer Chapel(of 1436). The square Stadt-Thurm (223 ft.), with its five turrets,was erected by Duke Lewis I. in 1208. 30 M. Amselfing; 33V2 M. Strasskirchen, 4 M. to the S.W. ofwhich are the mineral-baths of Munchshofen; 37 M. Stephans-posching. On the left the Natternberg (1260 ft.), with a ruined castleand a modern chateau. — 41 M. Flattliug (1040 ft.), where the linecrosses the Isar, near its confluence with the Danube, junction forMiihldorf and Eisenstein. (Excursion in the Bavarian Forest, seep. 245.) 46J/2 M. Langenisarhofen; 50 M. Osterhofen; 54 M. Girching ;56^2 M. Pleinting. The line nears the Danube, and follows it to Passau.On the opposite bank rises the well-preserved ruin of Hiltgersberg. 60 M. Vilshofen (1007 ft.; Ochs; Bayrischer Hof), the RomanVilla Quintanica, at the confluence of the Vils and Danube, has aGothic church of 1376. — 64 M. Sandbach. On a rock to the left,farther on, we observe a

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