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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forin the museum hard by is still to be seen the hugetankard which Burgomaster Nusch drained at adraught to save the lives of the town councilors fromthe infuriated Tilly. But I am not rehearsing thefamous story of the Meistertrunk, for two reasons.In the first place, it has already been told a thousandtimes. In the second place, it was probably manu-factured out of whole cloth in the eighteenth century. Next door to the museum, on the Apotheke, acharming oriel window with a green-and-red-tiledroof serves as background for the fountain and asbaldachin for an old saint. Happy is he who is allowed to visit the courtyardbehind this Apotheke, where the Rathaus tower peersdown upon its riot of roofs, its ivied walls, and itslatticed gallery, reminiscent of the best courtyardgalleries in Nuremberg. From all sides of the market-place run alluringstreets and alleys which, taking a line from the bogusinstruments of torture in the Straf Tower, pull onein seven different directions at once. 866
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COURT Ol- Tlllv A1()TI11:KE THE CITY OF DREAMS The Herren-Gasse pulled me the hardest, a streetrunning to the site of the red castle that gave Roth-enburg its name and was destroyed by a fourteenth-century earthquake. Here the patricians lived, andthe way is lined with courtly houses, many of themGothic. In the Herren-Gasse I found a number ofwell-preserved interiors, with good old paneled ceil-ings and stucco-work. In front were interestingportals with sculptured coats of arms, and in therear, idyllic little courts or wooded gardens. Nimi-ber 2 proved to be a medieval bake-shop, and nearby was a time-honored wine-house with separaterooms for patrician and plebeian. Behind a lofty stepped* gable some one wasplaying a rondo by Mozart on a spinet-like piano,and the eighteenth-century music sounded as radicalin that older atmosphere as would a Debussy tone-poem heard in the baroque quarter of Leipsic. Beneath the Castle Gate, over a bridge, and be-tween friendly, dunce-capped gate-houses

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