

ox -MARKKT SyL'AKK 1 X UKAUX SCH W EiG (BRUNSWICK) 



"Buttressed by hoarv history, golden with romance, rich in beautiful architecture and 

 in the wisdom to cherfsh it, what wonder that Hildesheim's jewel, the Knochenhauer 

 Amthaus, Braunschweig's Burg, Wernigerode's Rathaus, are the traveler's familiar friends ! ' 

 (see text, page 122). 



distant, curving streets and dusky corners 

 where one may readil}^ walk hand-in - 

 hand with the sixteenth century. Tall- 

 timbered houses rise, one story over- 

 stepping another, until scarcely a strip 

 of blue shows between the gables. Small 

 casement windows open in close lines 

 above a frieze delicately carved, gor- 

 geously painted ; allegorical figures, imps, 

 monsters, angels, and hobgoblins creep, 

 crawl, or pose wherever they may find 

 foothold. Look down from your win- 

 dow. In the square the bronze lion Avill 

 recall that Henry the Lion whose town 



this was, and with the name more stirring 

 history than one can well compress into 

 a morning. 



And after Hildesheim and Braun- 

 schweig there are Goslar and Halber- 

 stadt, Osterode, Ouedlinburg, Wernige- 

 rode — all close neighbors, all many-gabled, 

 to dispute Miinster's claims. After these 

 Harz towns, far to the southward, the 

 unforgettable glories of Niirnberg and 

 Rotenburg, of Wurzburg, Regensburg, 

 and LTlm. Now, indeed, we feel that we 

 have been overbold ; in friendliness we 

 have been unfriendly. 



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