The Rhine, its valley and history . ated churches, the one a round temple-church ofRomanesque architecture, the other the beautifulchurch of St Werner in the Gothic style. Bacharach andCaub are each surrounded by medieval ramparts; theone has about two and the other about three thousandinhabitants. Their associations are not, however, merelywith the Palatinate and with older times, for in 18 I4thePrussians and the Russians under Bliicher here effectedthe passage of the Rhine, driving the French beforethem. Then we come to Oberwesel on the left bank,another ancient town of about 3,000 inhabitan
The Rhine, its valley and history . ated churches, the one a round temple-church ofRomanesque architecture, the other the beautifulchurch of St Werner in the Gothic style. Bacharach andCaub are each surrounded by medieval ramparts; theone has about two and the other about three thousandinhabitants. Their associations are not, however, merelywith the Palatinate and with older times, for in 18 I4thePrussians and the Russians under Bliicher here effectedthe passage of the Rhine, driving the French beforethem. Then we come to Oberwesel on the left bank,another ancient town of about 3,000 inhabitants, oncea free town of the Empire, and above it the ruin ofthe Schonburg, the birthplace of that Marshall Schom-berg who, after serving as a soldier successively in theFrench and the Prussian armies, met his death in theservice of William III at the Battle of the Boyne. Thiscastle, like those of the Palatinate just mentioned, wasdestroyed by the French in the terrible year 1689. Descending the stream some three miles further, we146. The Rhine Gorgeenter the former territory of the Counts of Katzeneln-bogen. At the beginning of their section of the river,on the right bank, rising between 400 and 500 feetabove the water, is the great cliff of the Lurlei, whencea destructive fairy is said to have lured boatmen onto the rapids below. Round the Lurlei there opensthe most imposing reach of this part of the river. Tothe left is St Goar, to the right St Goarshausen, pictur-esque little towns each with some 2,000 St Goar are the fine ruins of the Rheinfels, theresidence of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and oftheir Hessian successors until the time of the FrenchRevolution. On the other side above St Goarshausen,thus securing with the Rheinfels the toll here formerlyimposed on the passing shipping, is the castle of NewKatzenelnbogen or the Cat, and a short distance inlandanother castle, the Reichenberg, belonging to the samefamily. Katzenelnbogen itself, the ancestral hom
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