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Title: Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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bgiate Chubch of St. Nicholas, founded in 1178, byBerthold IV., the Gothic nave erected in the 13th and 14th cent.,the choir in the 17th cent., restored in 1860. The handsome tower,250 high, was erected in 1470-92. The portal has curious reliefs ofthe Last Judgment. Interior (fee to the sacristan). The late-Gothic carved Stallt deservenotice. The second chapel on the S. side contains a picture by Desch-wanden, St. Anne and St. Mary. The choir has stained-glass windows fromthe abbey of Hauterive (p. 249; 14th cent.). A tablet on the S. pillar atthe entrance to the choir is to the memory of Canisiut (,Peter de Hondt, d.1597), the celebrated Jesuit. - The Organ, with 74 stops and 7800 pipes,some of them 32 in length, was built by Al. Mooter (d. 1839), whose busthas been placed to the left of the entrance. Performances in summer at1.30 and 8 p.m. daily (adm. 1 fr.). Behind the choir of St. Nicholas, a little to the left, is thegreat *Suspension Brtdgb. or Grand Pont Swpenda, 270 yds. long
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Geogr An st;irWa.gner ADebes, Leipzig. to Lausanne. FREIBURG. IV. Route 62. 249 and 168 above the Saiine, constructed by Chaley in 1834. It issupported by six wire-ropes, 410 yds. long, the ends of which aresecured to blocks of stone far below the surface of the earth. Ascending the right bank to the right for 8 min., we reach thePont db Gotteron (165 yds. long, 245 high), a similar bridge,constructed in 1840 over the Vallee de Ootteron, a deep ravinedescending to the Sarine. We cross this bridge and follow theroad on the other side (short-cut to the right) to the village ofBourguillon (2160). We then descend to the right, through an oldgate, to the (12 min. from the Pont de Gotteron) picturesquelysituated Loretto Chapel, built in 1648, restored in 1888 (fine viewof the town). Farther on we obtain, to the left, a view of the valleyof the Sarine, which is here bridled with a weir (barrage). A pathwith steps descends 5 min. from the chapel to the lower town (1785),turning to the left at

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