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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presented to St. Marys, where it stayed,despite the threats and wheedlings of Pope Six-tus IV. The fabulous vies with the beautiful in the atmo-sphere of this old church. It is said that the makerof the mechanical clock was blinded by the burgo-master, so that he might not make another for therival city of Liibeck. In a chapel pavement I cameupon another myih. Here a child was buried thatstruck its mother, and died soon after; and the fivesmall holes that I saw in the stone floor were made bythe little dead fingers reaching up from the grave forforgiveness. These are good specimens of the grue-someness of Baltic legends. But the guide told agentler one in All Saints Chapel, pointing out astone that hung by a cord: Once upon a time a monk was hurrying homewith a loaf of bread. Give me what is under yourrobe, cried a beggar-woman. *I starve. It is only a stone to throw at the dogs, returnedthe monk. And, sure enough, when he came to look,the loaf had turned to stone. There it hangs. 28
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. 1 11.All AND ST. JOHNS CMUKCII. iWlNTliR liVlNING) DANZIG Besides its altars and legends St. Marys Churchowns priceless treasures of gold and silver, old ivoriesand precious stones. It has wonderful reliquariesand manuscripts, Byzantine and Romanesque andGothic embroideries, and the finest collection ofchurch vestments in Germany. But in money thechurch is so poor that its beautiful things are fastbeing ruined for lack of proper attention. It is aworse case of poverty and neglect than that of thenotorious cathedral at Worms. Among the other churches, I preferred St. Peters,with its picturesque tower; and St. Catharines, withits interesting pulpit and font and its noble westfront. But the best thing about St. Catharines wasa little stream called the Radaune, which ran underits walls. It made an island close at hand, filled withgrass and flowers and a Gothic mill, put up five hun-dred years ago by the Teutonic Order, still grinding,under its vast expanse of tiles, the sort of grain th

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