. A handbook for travellers on the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland. town. The carriageroad to the former, which cannot be missed, leaves the streetat the back of the Englische Hof, and after 100 yds. ascendsto the 1., leading past the cemetery. The * Rochuscapelle, or Chapel of St. Roch, situated onan eminence 360 ft. above the Rhine, founded in 1666 at thetime of the plague, destroyed in 1795, and restored in 1814,commands a noble prospect of the entire Rheingau. Theinterior of the chapel contains a picture representing St. Rochleaving his dismantled palace, painted in commemoration ofthe
. A handbook for travellers on the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland. town. The carriageroad to the former, which cannot be missed, leaves the streetat the back of the Englische Hof, and after 100 yds. ascendsto the 1., leading past the cemetery. The * Rochuscapelle, or Chapel of St. Roch, situated onan eminence 360 ft. above the Rhine, founded in 1666 at thetime of the plague, destroyed in 1795, and restored in 1814,commands a noble prospect of the entire Rheingau. Theinterior of the chapel contains a picture representing St. Rochleaving his dismantled palace, painted in commemoration ofthe restoration of the sacred edifice, and presented by Goetheand others. At the festival of St. Roch (first Sunday afterAug. 16th), admirably described by Goethe, thousands ofpersons congregate here, and celebrate certain ecclesiasticalsolemnities, to which the jovial ringing of glasses and open-airdances form a somewhat incongruous accompaniment. Thechapel is generally opened in summer at 7 Near the a stone pulpit has been erected for open-air
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