Identifier: germanypainted00dick (find matches)
Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd corners. The housesare generally tall, with long sloping roofs andtimbers black with age. Here and there they areadorned with most artistic carved work. A largeand picturesque house attracts us. It is theHohehaus or High Hall, where in the fourteenthcentury the beautiful daughter of the Burgo-meister was married to a Margrave of Brunswick.It has many lovely oriels, and looks like an oldbaronial hall. In a square near at hand we find the Cathedral,grand and grim and grey, with splendid pillars andmany side-chapels. Our guide calls our attentionto a spot on the stone floor near one of the pillars,where it is said Huss stood as he was condemned.The guide declared that every other part of thefloor was perfectly dry, but that this stone wasconstantly moist. He said, The people call itthe weeping-stone, that continually sheds tears atthe thought of the injustice here perpetrated. UEBERLINGEN ON THE LAKE OFCONSTANCE A glimpse of the lake between the roofs ahnostshows the island of Mainau.
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STRASBURG AND THE BLACK FOREST 21 We pass the beautiful Protestant church, and,wandering through the crooked by-paths, find thehouse where Huss was arrested. On the frontwall there is an old relief of the martyr, with someverses more curious than poetical: Woes me, poor human drop !Here men seized me by the crop.I came for refuge as a stranger.But, alas ! I was not out of danger. Retracing our steps, we find a long straight street,and near it we descry an old wooden building thathas the look of a drill-shed. Now used as a granary,it was the meeting-place of the notorious Councilof Constance that condemned Huss and Jeromeof Prague. We seek the shore of the lake, and watch themultitude of little pleasure-boats darting hitherand thither. The strains of the Lorelei and theWatch on the Rhine, and many another folk-song float over the waters. The island of Meinau,where Grand Duke Frederick loved to sojourn andwhere in 1907 he died, gleams gloriously in theevening sunshine, and the snowy pea

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