. Luxembourg; the grand duchy and its people . t venera-tion in this district, and at Puttelange especiallythey were invoked to cure disease. At the foot ofthe ruelle leading up to the church is a beautifulcross in stone in their honour. It is stated to havebeen erected in about the middle of the eighteenthcentury, but there are doubts upon that point, someauthorities holding that it was only restored then, asthe base of the monument—a representation ofChrists tomb—is certainly sixteenth-century little farther on, and a few yards to the right alongthe road leading to Himlingen, stands a
. Luxembourg; the grand duchy and its people . t venera-tion in this district, and at Puttelange especiallythey were invoked to cure disease. At the foot ofthe ruelle leading up to the church is a beautifulcross in stone in their honour. It is stated to havebeen erected in about the middle of the eighteenthcentury, but there are doubts upon that point, someauthorities holding that it was only restored then, asthe base of the monument—a representation ofChrists tomb—is certainly sixteenth-century little farther on, and a few yards to the right alongthe road leading to Himlingen, stands an ancient croix de franchise. Here in old times justicewas administered, civil actions decided and localceremonies performed. The cross has been standingsince 1643, and is one of the very few of its kindnot thrown down at the time of the that time, too, was built the Castle ofPuttelange, which is to be seen a Httle farther alongthe road. That manor replaced the old feudalbuilding pillaged and burned by the Swedes in THE GATE OF RODEMACK. To face p. 95 BOTH SIDES OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER 95 The road, girt by apple-trees all the way, passesthrough a pretty wood, on leaving which a tinyroadside chapel is seen on the left. Then the wayleads down for a few hundred yards to whereRodemack, fronted by great chestnut-trees, is undoubtedly one of the most curiousvillages in the whole of the Grand Duchy. It stillstands huddled within the walls from behind whichit saw so much border fighting. One enters itto-day by the same gate, marvellously preserved—though the Administration des Postes might haveavoided fixing telegraph wires to one of its towers !—by which Henry H, King of France, entered thetown in 1552. The streets are narrow and twist-ing, the houses old, and not one of them possesses agarden, the only garden in the place being attachedto the manor house in the middle of the little town.,I visited the place on a Sunday afternoon, a timew
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