Identifier: 26842169.5278.emory.edu
Title: A handbook for travellers on the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Coblenz : K. Baedeker London : Williams & Norgate Edinburgh : Williams & Norgate
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ury, on the !pointof being put up to publicauction at a valuation of8000 fr., a degrading fateit was happily spared. Na-poleon ordered it in 1806to be rededicated to publicworship, but in the absenceof funds it still continuedto be used as a store-house.In 1822 it was completelyrestored by the assistanceof the king Maximilian, andagain devoted to its sacredpurposes. The crypt, under thetransept and choir, is in allrespects the same as it wasin 1039; the choir, withthe two E. towers, belongsprobably to a date sub-sequent to 1068, while theupper parts of the churchare believed to have beenerected after a fire in 1159.The whole edifice is a grandand massive, but simplespecimen of the Romanesquestyle. The Front of the cathedral was newly constructed fromthe designs of the eminent architect Hiibsch of Carlsruhe in1854—58, as well as the W. spire (225 ft.) and the Kaiser-Halle (Imperial Hall). The large circular window in front hasa head of the Saviour crowned with thorns in the centre on
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Cathedral. SPEYER. 48. Route. 203 a gold ground, and in the corners the emblematic figures ofthe four Evangelists, an angel (Matthew), winged lion (Mark),ox (Luke), and eagle (John). Over the principal gate is theimperial double eagle, and over the side entrances the lion ofthe Palatinate. In the entrance (Imperial) hall under theW. towers, in niches of gold mosaic, were placed in 1858statues of the emperors interred in the Kings choir; on ther. Conrad II., Rudolph of Habsburg, Adolph of Nassau, andAlbert of Austria; on the 1. Henry III., Henry IV. (in therobes of a penitent), Heijry V., and Philip of Swabia. Thefour reliefs are by Pilz: Conrad laying the foundation-stone ofthe cathedral; Rudolph and the priest with the host; Rudolphreceiving the tidings of his election to the imperial throne;the same emperor taking the cross from the altar at his■coronation at Aix-la-Chapelle. Over the principal inner portalis represented the consecration of the church to the Virgin, ontthe I. St.

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