. Romantic Germany. re onDecember 28, 1221, the boy choristers were still cele-brating with bonfires the heathen festival of the win-ter solstice (Sonnenwende), the way leads AmPlatz and down the Friesenstieg to the Braun-schweiger-Strasse, with its wealth of interestinghouses. And at the head of the long Wollenweber-Strasse there comes a sight which one is glad to carryaway as the final impression of this fairy town. Flanked by quaint carven houses, there rises,from the old city wall beyond, the beautiful Kehr-wieder Turm, or Turn-again Tower. Once upon a time when all the world was young,the
. Romantic Germany. re onDecember 28, 1221, the boy choristers were still cele-brating with bonfires the heathen festival of the win-ter solstice (Sonnenwende), the way leads AmPlatz and down the Friesenstieg to the Braun-schweiger-Strasse, with its wealth of interestinghouses. And at the head of the long Wollenweber-Strasse there comes a sight which one is glad to carryaway as the final impression of this fairy town. Flanked by quaint carven houses, there rises,from the old city wall beyond, the beautiful Kehr-wieder Turm, or Turn-again Tower. Once upon a time when all the world was young,the little bell in this Kehrwieder Turm rang out forthe Maid of Hildesheim as she was wandering, lost,in the deep woods down beyond the wall, calling herback to her beloved city. And to this day, as the Fountain of Trevi callsback to the sound of its murmuring waters all whohave known the Eternal City, so the KehrwiederTurm forever rings out to all who have come underthe magical spell of Hildesheim—Turn Again! 11 235. VII LEIPSIC N visiting northern Germany the traveler^ usually keeps the Prussian capital as hisbase of operations until he seeks the Southby way of Saxony. After the aggressiveness and modernityof Berhn, it is a relief to mingle with the quiet,matter-of-fact people of Leipsic, to rest ones eyesagain on a Renaissance gable, again to loiter in streetswith quaint and homely names. In many of these oldnames there is a flavor of poetry that brings thestranger at once into terms of intimacy with thetown. They touch the imagination because theywere christened naturally by the wit of the people,and always christened for their most salient Alley led in bygone days to a mill be-yond the wall and ditch; along Sparrow Mountain,a thoroughfare almost as flat as Sahara, ran a prisonwall, crowded winter and summer with Street pierced the slums. In Barefoot 236 LEIPSIC Alley was a cloister of ascetic monks, and the chiv-alry of the JNIiddle Ages li
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