A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . rful to account for all its GERMANY GERMANY, ARCHITECTURE OF ; PartI. ; The Rliiue and the Rhiuelands. If wo enter Germany from Holland by the Khiue, oneof the first objects whichattracts attention is thebeautiful wood-clad hillof Cleves, cro\viied byits ancient castle sometwo miles oft, but con-spicuous far and wideover the great flat plainthrough which theRhine flows. Here weare indeed in the landof legend and romance,for that great bricktower is the celebrated Swan Tower of Lohengrin,
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . rful to account for all its GERMANY GERMANY, ARCHITECTURE OF ; PartI. ; The Rliiue and the Rhiuelands. If wo enter Germany from Holland by the Khiue, oneof the first objects whichattracts attention is thebeautiful wood-clad hillof Cleves, cro\viied byits ancient castle sometwo miles oft, but con-spicuous far and wideover the great flat plainthrough which theRhine flows. Here weare indeed in the landof legend and romance,for that great bricktower is the celebrated Swan Tower of Lohengrin, and the old castlehas Roman fragments and inscriptions builtinto its walls. The neighbourhood of Clevesabounds in objects of interest ; some six milesofi^ is the very ancient town of Xanten, said tobe the site of the castle of the Nibelungs. Ro-man objects are constantly foui\d here, as it wasone of the most important settlements on the GERMANY Rhine. The place is now rcduceil to a merevillage justly celelirated for its extremely nnig-niticent church, which both internally uml
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