Identifier: cathedralschurch00mans (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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, BINGEN, AND RUDESHEIM Bacharach is famous for its legends andits wine. With the former is associated theruins of St. Werners Church, a fragment ofexquisite flamboyant Gothic, though built ofwhat looks like a red sandstone. The Swedesdemolished it in the Thirty Years War, butthe lantern and the eastern lancet windowstill remain to suggest its former greatbeauty. This beautiful chapel was built as a memo-rial to the child Werner, whose body wasfabled to have been thrown by the Jews, hissupposed murderers, into the Rhine at Ober-wesel. Instead of floating down-stream withthe current, it went up-stream as far as Bacha-rach, where it was recovered. There is at Bacharach a twelfth-centurychurch in the Byzantine style, which is nowa Protestant temple. It is an incongruousaffair in spite of the fact that the style is fairly 172 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine pure of its kind, so far as the body of thechurch is concerned. Surmounting it is aneedle-like spire which rises above the cren-
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elated battlement of its tower in a most fan-tastic manner. The city walls have great ornamental and n2> Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine picturesque qualities, and were, in formerdays, defended by twelve towers of imposingstrength. The evolution of the name of Bacharach isdecidedly non-Christian. It is frankly pagan,being descended from Bacchi ara, — the altarof Bacchus, — which was the name originallygiven to a rock in the midst of the river, which,in varying seasons, is sometimes covered bythe flood, and again quite dry. When its sur-face appears to the light of day, the vineyardowner hails it as a sign of good vintage. In proof of the quality of the wines of Bach-arach, it is said that Pope Pius II. used everyyear to have a great tun of it brought to Romefor his special use, and that the Emperor Wen-ceslas granted their freedom to the citizens ofNuremberg in return for four tuns of the wineof Bacharach. To-day Bacharach is, withCologne, the great wine centre of the Rhin

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