A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent; Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland by Books Group
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...gilt, consisting of a series of niches, filled with the figure of prophets, patriarchs, and saints, is of the same age as the church, and is the perfection of elegance and delicacy. In a side chapel are many monuments of the Schomberg family, hearing rudelycarved effigies of knights in armour, ladies in stomachers and ruffs, and babies in swaddling clothes, like mummies or the larvse of insects. The older Ch. of St. Martin, with a large square tower and octagonal lantern, is also interesting from its architecture. In it is a Deposition from the Cross by Diepenbeck. In some period of the dark ages a boy named Werner is said to have been most impiously crucified and put to death by the Jews in this place. A similar story is told in many other parts of the world; even in England, at Gloucester and Lincoln (vide Chaucer). It is probable that the. whole was a fabrication, to serve as a pretext for persecuting the Jews and extorting money from them. A little Chapel, erected to the memory of this Werner, stands upon the walls of the town, close to the Rhine. (1.) Schonberg. This ruined castle on the rock was the cradle of an illustrious family of the same name. The English Schombergs are a branch of it, and the hero of the Boyne, Marshal Schomberg, sprang from the same stock. It receives its name (Beautiful Hill), as the story goes, from 7 beauteous daughters of the house, who by their charms turned the heads of half the young knights far and near; but were, at the same time, so hard-hearted that they would listen to the suits of none of them, and were therefore changed into 7 rocks, which are seen even to this day projecting out of the bed of the Rhine below Oberwesel, whcn the water is low. (rt.) Gutenfcls, a ruined castle above the town of Caub, traditiona...
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