Southern Germany, including Wurtemberg and Bavaria: handbook for travellers . ; but her history is purelytraditionary. The *Church of St. Kilian (PI. 9; C, 3), originally an early-Gothic edifice founded in 1013, of which the nave, with pointedarcades, is the only remnant, was rebuilt in the late-Gothic style inthe 15th cent., and the tower, 217 ft. in height, was completed in1529 in the Renaissance style. The whole building has just beenthoroughly restored. The choir (1480), with richly articulated pillaTSand network-vaulting, contains an *Altar in carved wood, by Til-mann Riemenschneider (149
Southern Germany, including Wurtemberg and Bavaria: handbook for travellers . ; but her history is purelytraditionary. The *Church of St. Kilian (PI. 9; C, 3), originally an early-Gothic edifice founded in 1013, of which the nave, with pointedarcades, is the only remnant, was rebuilt in the late-Gothic style inthe 15th cent., and the tower, 217 ft. in height, was completed in1529 in the Renaissance style. The whole building has just beenthoroughly restored. The choir (1480), with richly articulated pillaTSand network-vaulting, contains an *Altar in carved wood, by Til-mann Riemenschneider (1498), and a fine ciborium. — The ad-joining Clara-Strasse contains handsome new buildings. We descend the Kirchbrunnen-Str. to the right, and enter theDeutschhof-Str. to the left, with the Deutsches Haus (PI. 2; B, 4),originally an imperial palace, afterwards occupied by the TeutonicOrder, and now by the courts of law. The Treaty of Heilbronn wasconcluded here in 1633. The oldest part of the building is thelowest story, in the Romanesque style, of the tower of the adjacent. 9eographi£che Anstalt van .1 Debt*s . l,.MD7,i£- to Hanau. HEILBRONN. 4. Route. 21 Roman Catholic church. The court on the N. side is is the old Schonthaler Hof (now Restaurant zum Deut-schen Hause, see p. 20), where, as a quaint inscription on the gate-way (right side) records, Charles V. once spent four weeks and wascured of an illness by the Heilbronn waters. Nearly opposite the Deutsches Haus is the Allerheiligen-Str.,leading to the square red Diebsthurm or Ootzens Thurm (PI. 3 ;B, 4), in which Goethe, contrary to the fact, represents Gotz vonBerlichingen as having died (whereas he was only imprisoned herefor one night in 1519; comp. pp. 20, 22). To the E. of the towerwe ascend the Rosenberger-Str. to the Allee (p. 20), in which, onthe right, rises the Synagogue (PL 14; C, 4), in the Moorish-By-zantine style. Farther on is the Harmonie-Qebaude (PI. C, D, 3),containing the exhibitio
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