House Garden 
way is seen not 
only in their houses 
but in all the build¬ 
ings erected for 
public use. Among 
these the Rathaus 
is naturally the 
most important. It 
is an imposing 
dou ble building, 
the parts of which, 
although belonging 
to very different 
periods, do not an¬ 
tagonize each 
other in design. 
The older or west¬ 
ern part, its gable 
capped with a slen¬ 
der tower,is Gothic, 
built about 1250. 
The eastern part, 
a German version 
of Italian Renais¬ 
sance, dates from 
FOUNTAIN OF ST. GEORGE 
1572, replacing a 
Gothic building 
destroyed by hre, 
while the arcade 
was not built until 
1681. The town 
has a number of 
churches of the 
fourteenth or fif¬ 
teenth centuries 
that show strong 
individuality. 
The book from 
which the accom¬ 
panying illustra¬ 
tions are taken con¬ 
sists of a series of 
thirty plates which 
present in all about 
ninety photo¬ 
graphs of the old 
city, taken by Ru¬ 
dolph Kempf, di¬ 
rector of the build¬ 
ing trades school in 
THE WHITE TOWER 
COURTYARD 
OF THE BAUMEISTER HOUSE 
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