. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. nt, are fromthe years 1467-1496. The glory of the church is thehigh altar with its wonderful wood-carving painted andgilded, which was completed in 1494. The relief on theright wing dates from 1493. In going to bed the boys were obliged to pass alongan open corridor whose arches looked down on thechurch with its blackened oak stalls where the Benedic-tine monks used to sit only a few centuries before. Theeffect of the moonlight, slanting and shifting on theseempt
. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. nt, are fromthe years 1467-1496. The glory of the church is thehigh altar with its wonderful wood-carving painted andgilded, which was completed in 1494. The relief on theright wing dates from 1493. In going to bed the boys were obliged to pass alongan open corridor whose arches looked down on thechurch with its blackened oak stalls where the Benedic-tine monks used to sit only a few centuries before. Theeffect of the moonlight, slanting and shifting on theseempty seats was extremely weird, and, doubtless, ghostlyshapes often glided through the dreams that followed. The surroundings of Blaubeuren are most cloister and village nestle close to the Blautopf,a clear blue lake long considered unfathomable, just atthe point where, from its placid depths, the wide streamof the River Blau flows toward Ulm. Like the edgesof a colossal crater, precipitous, and mostly bare wallsof rock enclose the basin of the Blautopf with its en-chanting green meadows. The striking feature of this. e SJ frf(f/(ffy«/i ^(fr/ A t r//f</ n THE CLOISTER SCHOOL 21 spot however, is a solitary mountain peak, the Ruck,which has remained standing in the middle of the basin,steep and rugged on one side, but falling away grad-ually, in soft outlines, to the valley of the Blau. (Pfar-rers Albert.) The ordering of the house, the Cloister as it wasusually called, was almost Spartan in its simplicity. Allthe rooms and corridors, even the lecture-room, werewhitewashed and quite bare. To each student a room was assigned for the whole course of four years Adolph received the Collegstube adjoining the lecture-room, sharing it with seven of his companions. Thisroom was long and narrow, well lighted by four win-dows overlooking a quiet, peaceful orchard which, inspring, was glorious with blossoms, and enlivened by thejoyous song of many birds. Besides a desk near a
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