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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devotees more spiritual stimulusthan any other for a given imaginative effort. Through its Messen, or fairs, Leipsic has becomeone of the most important business centers of Ger-many. Here crossed the two important old traderoutes between Poland and Thuringia, and betweenBohemia and North Germany. From Otto theRich, Margrave of Meissen, the town obtained amonopoly of fairs, which was largely extended in1497 by the Emperor Maximilian. These fairsgrew rapidly, and came to be the largest functionsof their kind in Europe. Spring and autumn thebooth-filled squares were crowded with the costumesand clamorous with the tongues of all nations. Evensince the advent of the railway era, the spring andautumn fairs have remained important for the tradein furs, toys, and the other goods which must be seenbefore being bought. But in 1906 the booths werebanished outside the Frankfort Gate, and now thefair-time interest centers in the Grimm aische- andPeters-Strassen and the Neumarkt. Here the 5000 254
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THE NEW RATHAfS FROM THE PROMEXADE-RIXG LEIPSIC wholesale merchants have their headquarters. Thehouses flame with posters, and the merchants per-form a sort of college-boy parade through thestreets, clothed as for a masquerade ball and howlingtheir wares to the accompaniment of every unmusicalinstrument known in the musicians purgatory. Aheathen scandal is that! confided an old Leipsickerto me. Even more important than the fair is the book-trade, for since the middle of the eighteenth centuryLeipsic has been the publishing center of Germany.There are almost 1000 local publishers and dealersin printed matter; there are 190 printers; and atJubilate 11,475 book dealers are represented in thehandsome building of the Book Exchange. This tremendous trade is due in part to the au-thority of the 500-year-old University on the Augus-tus-Platz. The venerable home of this institutionwas recently destroyed in a restoration; though inits chapel there remain some noteworthy statues, anda precious G

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