Identifier: cathedralschurch01mans (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y lenda warmth and brilliancy to an edifice thatmight otherw^ise be cold and unfeeling. Many are the historic incidents connectedwith this venerable building. The notifica-tion of the sons of Louis the Pious took placein 870; the reconciliation of Henri IV. ofGermany with his sons occurred in 1105; St.Bernard preached the Crusades here beforea vast congregation, recruiting for the armyfor the East over one thousand citizens ofCoblenz alone. Near the church of St. Castor is the houseof the Teutonic Order, of fine Gothic design,but to-day turned into a military magazine. On a hill overlooking the city was the fa-mous Chartreuse convent, the ruins of whichare now swallowed up by Forts Constantineand Alexander. The bridge which crosses the Moselle atthis point is in itself a wonderful old relic.It spans the river on fourteen arches, anddates from 1344, save that its watch-tower wasbuilt at a later day. The bridge of boats which crosses theRhine, on thirty-six pontoons, partakes of the 190
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Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine same characteristics as its brother at Mayence,though by no means is it so celebrated. Above Coblenz the Rhine narrows consid-erably, and the mountains and hilltops drawin until ones progress, by water, is almost asif it were through a canon. Niederlahnstein has a fine ruined churchin St. Johns, whence it is but a short distanceto Boppart. Boppart Boppart was the ancient Bandobriga of theRomans, and, like many another place alongthe Rhine, is closely linked with the memoryof Drusus. Boppart was made an imperial city, andmany Diets wxre held within its walls. The Hauptkirche, with its twin-jointedspires, was built about the year 1200. It is thoroughly Romanesque, if we exceptthe spires wKch are linked together by a sortof galleried vestibule, after a manner thatis neither Romanesque nor anything else. The inside galleries over the aisles (mdn-nerchore) are interesting, though by no meansa unique feature in RTiine churches. There is a queer intermixt

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