Romantic Germany (1910) (14598320687)

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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the Ilundling, or circle ofhuts facing an inner space with only one exit, aprimitive device for guarding the cattle of the com-munity at night. It was prophetic of Dresdens artistic destiny thatthe first Margrave of Meissen to reside here (1277—88) should have been Heinrich der Erlauchte, whowas mentioned as a fellow-Minnesinger by Tann-hauser and by Walther von der Vogelweide. Hein-rich married an Austrian princess, who brought toDresden a piece of the true cross. For this a chapelwas added to the Church of St. Nicholas, where itwas exhibited, together with another cross that cameswimming miraculously down the Elbe; and thesedrew such a throng of liberal pilgrims that St. Nich-olass was rebuilt as the Church of the Cross and theold wooden bridge turned into one of stone in 1319.It is curious to know that this church and the Augus-tus Bridge are still under one financial management. During four troubled centuries unwarlike Dresdensuffered much, and did not become important until 280
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IORCII.AIN IAIK IN THK NIW MAKKliT, TIIH CHURCH Oh OUR LADY ON THh l.hl-T DRESDEN the reign of Frederick Augustus the Strong (1694-1733)—August the Physically Strong, as Carlyleloved to call him. A gilt, rococo king, clad discrepantly in a wig andtoga, he strides a gilt horse in the New Town mar-ket-place, a weak variant of Berlins monument tothe Great Elector, facing, with a faint grin, his king-dom of Poland, for which he turned Roman Catho-lic. Resembling Louis XIV in feature, he strove toresemble him as well in trying to revive the goldenperiod of Roman culture and to combine, in theZwinger, all the elegant and useful features of Ro-man baths and palaces. The Zwinger was intended to unite immense ban-quet- and dancing-halls with baths, grottoes, colon-nades, pleasure-walks, rows of trees and pillars,lawns, gardens, waterfalls, and playgrounds—a fitplace to display the pomp and circumstance of royaldomestic life in the ostentatious spirit of the eigh-teenth century. It was plan