Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. 27. A piece of the wall, between the Spittlerthor and by F. Schmidt. at a considerable distance from it. So rose, somewhat after 1345, the famousWall of Nuremberg, the pearl of German city-defences. This wall, throughits relatively fine preservation, with its towers, great and small, of the mostvaried forms, its gates, rampart-walks, battlements and loopholes, its flankingdefences, bastions, casemates and ditches, makes many important revelationsto both the social historian and the military expert. At the same ti
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. 27. A piece of the wall, between the Spittlerthor and by F. Schmidt. at a considerable distance from it. So rose, somewhat after 1345, the famousWall of Nuremberg, the pearl of German city-defences. This wall, throughits relatively fine preservation, with its towers, great and small, of the mostvaried forms, its gates, rampart-walks, battlements and loopholes, its flankingdefences, bastions, casemates and ditches, makes many important revelationsto both the social historian and the military expert. At the same time, however,through its being so overgrown by a luxuriant nature, and enlivened with treesand bushes, as well as by creeping and other plants growing from joints andcracks in the masonry, it offers an abundance of the most pleasing subjects. Fig. 28. The Schoner Brunnen (Beautiful Fountain). 48 THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TOWN WALL. to painters, and to tourists with a feeling for art a series of never-to-be-forgotten pictures of an almost magical charm (fig. 24). The wooden flights ofsteps at the back (fig. 25), erected later than the wall itself, are especiallypicturesque, and so are the bold, beautifully curved arches, without intermediatepiers, by means of which the arms of the Pegnitz are crossed (fig. 26). Like the Castle, with which it combines to form such a picturesque whole,the city wall is the work of several centuries. Begun before the middle ofthe 15 ^^ century, the richly-towered wall and the ditch were, in the main,finished in 1452. Then, in place of the four powerful round towers built onlyin the 16* century, four tall square towers protected the four chief gates ofthe town (the Frauenthor, Spittlerthor, Neuthor and Lauferthor), towhich access was given by drawbridges across the ditch. An especial pro-tection wa
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