Identifier: cathedralschurch01mans (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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might stillexist, a sermon was always preached, up tothe last century; in the market-place, on St.Bartholomews Day, urging the people to for-give their enemies. The records tell, how-ever, that on one occasion an unfortunate in-habitant of Linz was discovered in Ander-nach, and that he was forthwith put to deathin most unchristianlike fashion. The Gate of Coblenz at Andernach is gen-erally regarded as an ancient Roman work,though not of the monumental order usual inworks of its kind. The present fortifications date from thefifteenth century, as does the picturesquewatch-tower by the waterside. With Andernach is identified the traditionof a Count Palatine, who, returning from theHoly Wars, was persuaded by a false friendthat his lady had proved faithless; and, with-out listening to excuse, drove her forth to thewoods. In the forest she found shelter withher youthful son, lodging in caves and livingon fruits and herbs for many years. One dayher husband, having lost his companions in 200
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G ENERAL VIEWof ANDERNACH Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine the chase, came by accident upon her placeof concealment. The wife of his bosom, care-fully nurtured in her youth, but now livingunattended in the wilds, and his son, nowgrown into a fine youth, excited his pity. Lis-tening to the truth, he took home the innocentvictims of perfidy, and retaliated upon the tra-ducer by hanging him from the highest towerof his castle. After her death, the countess be-came St. Genofeva, and is the patroness ofthe parish church of St. Genevieve, which isa lofty structure with four towers which risehigh above the surrounding buildings in afashion which would be truly imposing werethe church less overornamented in all its parts. The actual foundation of the church datesfrom Carlovingian times, and a tenth-centurychurch is visibly incorporated into the presentfabric, but in the main the present structureis of the thirteenth century. The fagade, as is the case with most of theRomano-Byzantine chur

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