Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . t the other end of which isthe picturesque but deserted abbey of Laach,one of the most celebrated, architecturally andhistorically, of all the religious edifices alongthe Rhine. Once a Benedictine convent, it was pillagedand its inmates dispersed during the overflowof the French Revolution, and is now naughtbut a ruin, though in many respects a grandlypreserved one. The abbey was founded in 1093 byHenry II. of Laach, Count Palatine of LowerLorraine, and the first Count Palatine of theRhine. Its magnificent church, built in the mostacceptable Gothic, conta
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . t the other end of which isthe picturesque but deserted abbey of Laach,one of the most celebrated, architecturally andhistorically, of all the religious edifices alongthe Rhine. Once a Benedictine convent, it was pillagedand its inmates dispersed during the overflowof the French Revolution, and is now naughtbut a ruin, though in many respects a grandlypreserved one. The abbey was founded in 1093 byHenry II. of Laach, Count Palatine of LowerLorraine, and the first Count Palatine of theRhine. Its magnificent church, built in the mostacceptable Gothic, contains the remains ofits founder and many nobles. The monks of the abbey were, in the mid-194 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine die ages, greatly celebrated for their knowl-edge of the sciences and their library was richly stored with biblio-graphical treasures, and they possessed a finecollection of paintings. To-day the abbeyand its dependencies is but a shadow of itsformer self; its library and its picture-gallery. have disappeared, and, early in the nineteenthcentury, the establishment was sold for a priceso small that it would be a sacrilege to men-tion it. Stolzenfels The mention of the castle of Stolzenfelshardly suggests anything churchly or devout, 195 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine though those who know the history of thismost picturesque of all Rhine castles (restoredthough it be) know also that it was an earlyfoundation of Archbishop Arnold of Trevesin the thirteenth century, and was, during thecentury following, the residence of his suc-cessors. Placed high upon its proud rock therestored fabric to-day wonderfully resemblesthe castled-crag of ones imagination. Archbishop Werner of Strasburg also madeit his residence in turn, and later the Englishprincess betrothed to the Emperor Freder-ick II. of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was enter-tained there. The castle was nearly destroyed by theFrench in 1688, and in 1825 the ruin wasmade over to the the
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