Otto Ferdinand Probst

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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.
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tivating corner oriel. This building, with its bitof walled garden, was once the Jewish dance-house.Old Jewish baths are still to be seen in the cellars. From the Wiirzburg Gate, as from so many of theothers, there looks down a stone face, probably theportrait of a would-be traitor; and inside of the arch-way a mysterious profile is roughly chiseled—a pro-file about which one hears all sorts of contradictoryreports. This northern part of the town wall is the best pre-served, for it was built according to the theories ofVitruvius, and is the foremost example of its kind.On its broad top the maidens dance after the festivalplay. Here my friends, two young American paint-ers, once gave their memorable Fourth of July cele-bration, and, after the fireworks, were carried homeon the shoulders of the delighted inhabitants, anevent that will doubtless be talked of in Rothenburgfor generations. I walked to the Klingen Gate along the gallery.This passage has never been much used except for 376
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FOUNTAIN IN THU KAIEI.I.EN-PLATZ THE CITY OF DREAMS defense, but its deeply worn pavement is eloquent ofthe towns martial history. I found it the haunt ofrope-makers, with hemp flying from their girdles andlodged in their flaxen whiskers. Many of the loop-holes were walled up, but through the open ones Icaught rare little vignettes of flowering moat and apleasant countryside in bloom. The Klingen Gate, with its side turrets, rivals theStoberlein Tower, with its corner ones, for the dis-tinction of being Rothenburgs most beautiful tower.From the wall here a dark stairway winds down intothe little Church of the Shepherds. Some centuries ago the local Jews were believed tohave conspired to poison the fountains, murder thewatch, and make Rothenburg in very deed into a newJerusalem. But the shepherds of the neighborhooddiscovered and published the plot. As a reward, theywere allowed, until late in the eighteenth century, tohold an annual festival in honor of this event. Itbegan with a serv

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Otto Ferdinand Probst: Lindau, Blick auf den Pulverturm vom Wasser aus, Radierung, Platte 5.3 x 5.2 cm

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Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
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forin the museum hard by is still to be seen the hugetankard which Burgomaster Nusch drained at adraught to save the lives of the town councilors fromthe infuriated Tilly. But I am not rehearsing thefamous story of the Meistertrunk, for two reasons.In the first place, it has already been told a thousandtimes. In the second place, it was probably manu-factured out of whole cloth in the eighteenth century. Next door to the museum, on the Apotheke, acharming oriel window with a green-and-red-tiledroof serves as background for the fountain and asbaldachin for an old saint. Happy is he who is allowed to visit the courtyardbehind this Apotheke, where the Rathaus tower peersdown upon its riot of roofs, its ivied walls, and itslatticed gallery, reminiscent of the best courtyardgalleries in Nuremberg. From all sides of the market-place run alluringstreets and alleys which, taking a line from the bogusinstruments of torture in the Straf Tower, pull onein seven different directions at once. 866
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COURT Ol- Tlllv A1()TI11:KE THE CITY OF DREAMS The Herren-Gasse pulled me the hardest, a streetrunning to the site of the red castle that gave Roth-enburg its name and was destroyed by a fourteenth-century earthquake. Here the patricians lived, andthe way is lined with courtly houses, many of themGothic. In the Herren-Gasse I found a number ofwell-preserved interiors, with good old paneled ceil-ings and stucco-work. In front were interestingportals with sculptured coats of arms, and in therear, idyllic little courts or wooded gardens. Nimi-ber 2 proved to be a medieval bake-shop, and nearby was a time-honored wine-house with separaterooms for patrician and plebeian. Behind a lofty stepped* gable some one wasplaying a rondo by Mozart on a spinet-like piano,and the eighteenth-century music sounded as radicalin that older atmosphere as would a Debussy tone-poem heard in the baroque quarter of Leipsic. Beneath the Castle Gate, over a bridge, and be-tween friendly, dunce-capped gate-houses

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Otto Ferdinand Probst - The Klingen-Gate Tower in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, c. 1909

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Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
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under the Church of St. James. It is a fit set-ting for the legend of The Poor Soul of Rothenburg.In olden days the burghers did not believe much inthe devil, which angered that personage. Once upona time when a peasant was passing under this arch-way the devil caught him suddenly and hurled himagainst the vaulting with great force. The poorbody fell down again at once, but the poor soul re-mained sticking to the stones. You may see it thereto-day. It is sort of brown, writes the chron-icler, with black spots. On the southern roof of the church is a recliningfigure which recalls another legend. In building thetwo towers the architect let his pupil try his hand atone of them. And when he saw how much his pupilstower outshone his, he leaped to his death from thescaffolding. The pupil then carved his masters por-trait on the roof. The architecture of the interior is rather more coldand austere than one would expect of Rothenburgsprincipal church; but there is a compensatory richness 380
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i THE KI,1NGEX-GATE TOWER THE CITY OF DREAMS of imagination in the altars by Herlin and Riemen-schneider and in the blaze of color that pours throughthe fifteenth-century windows. Here also is a touchof that naivete which is so enjoyable in the localhouse inscriptions. For the eastern windows repre-sent the Fall of the Manna as a rain of South-Ger-man rolls and pretzels. Of all the alluring ways beckoning out of the mar-ket-place, one of the most alluring to me was theSchmied-Gasse, with its view of that notable Renais-sance dwelling, the Architects House. The caryatidsbetween the windows with their reminiscence of theErechtheimi, and the stately portal and gable, bringout vividly the classical dignity and poise of theperiod, while the courtyard is teeming with Rothen-burgs unique charm. There you may loll at tablesmade of old millstones, with moss and flowers grow-ing from the hole in the center, and sip your coffeefrom earthenware cups of the quaint local pattern.That is the place t

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