. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. ORNAMENTED WINE CDP AND DISH FROM ANENGRAVING BY HANS BORGMAIR, A. D; 1517. THE ARCHITECT OF COLOGNE. 97. THE LEGENDS OF COLOGNE — THE CARNIVAL. o stranger ever enters Cologne without going to see the Cathedral, andnobody ever looks upon that fragment of the mightiest Gothic designin Christendom without doing three things—without regretting thatit never was completed, without asking who was the architect, orwithout listening to the Legend of the Builder. Mighty was the Archbishop Conrad de Hochsteden, for he was lord over thec
. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. ORNAMENTED WINE CDP AND DISH FROM ANENGRAVING BY HANS BORGMAIR, A. D; 1517. THE ARCHITECT OF COLOGNE. 97. THE LEGENDS OF COLOGNE — THE CARNIVAL. o stranger ever enters Cologne without going to see the Cathedral, andnobody ever looks upon that fragment of the mightiest Gothic designin Christendom without doing three things—without regretting thatit never was completed, without asking who was the architect, orwithout listening to the Legend of the Builder. Mighty was the Archbishop Conrad de Hochsteden, for he was lord over thechief city of the Rhine — the city of Cologne : but his thoughts were troubled, andhis heart was heavy, for though his churches were rich beyond compare in relics,yet other towns not half so large or powerful as his had cathedrals whose fameextended over Europe, and whose beauty brought pilgrims to their shrine, profit tothe ecclesiastics, and business to the townspeople. After many sleepless nights,therefore, he determined to add to his city the only thing wanting to complete it,and sending for the most famous architect of the time, he commissioned him tocomple
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