Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . essors. A tradition still exists, tellinghow Hans Bromser, being taken captive inJerusalem, made a vow to Heaven that if re-leased he would dedicate his only daughterto the service of the Church. Gaining hisliberty soon afterward, he returned to theRhine to find the child he had left when hestarted for the Crusades grown to woman-hood; and he learned also that, secure of herfathers sanction, she had betrothed herself toa youthful knight. Love and duty well-nighrent the maidens heart in twain, till love con-quered, and she begged her stern parent torelent.
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . essors. A tradition still exists, tellinghow Hans Bromser, being taken captive inJerusalem, made a vow to Heaven that if re-leased he would dedicate his only daughterto the service of the Church. Gaining hisliberty soon afterward, he returned to theRhine to find the child he had left when hestarted for the Crusades grown to woman-hood; and he learned also that, secure of herfathers sanction, she had betrothed herself toa youthful knight. Love and duty well-nighrent the maidens heart in twain, till love con-quered, and she begged her stern parent torelent. This he refused to do, and threatenedher with a fathers curse should she marry. Despairing, she threw herself into theRhine, and her body floated down-streamas far as Bishop Hattos Mouse Tower, at 179 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Bingen. This gave rise to another legend, thatwhen the surface of the waters is troubledit is caused by the uneasy spirit of Bromsersdaughter, wrestling with the dreadful fate towhich she was 180 XVIII LIMBURG The cathedral of Limburg-on-Lahn, notfarther from the juncture of the Lahn andRhine than is Frankfort-on-the-Main, maywell be considered a Rhine cathedral. The Lahn is by no means so powerful astream as is the Main or the Neckar; nor is iteither picturesque, or even important as awaterway. It has this one virtue, however: it forms asetting to Limburgs many-spired cathedralthat is truly grand. Limburg played a great part in the middleages, and its origin goes far back into an-tiquity. Under Drusus a castellum waserected here, which was destroyed by theFranks and the Alemanni. The counts of the lower Lahn provincewere among the most powerful in all Ger-many. They gave their city the name of i8i Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Roemercastel, which name, to some extent,may be said to live up to to-day. Later theFranks called it Lintburc, from the littleriver Linther, which flows into the Lahn atthis point. The cathedral of Limbu
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