History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . 97 THE EXODUS TO AMERICA Every large city above Cologne was taken and robbed andmany burned. At Spires the imperial vaults were opened andthe ashes of the royal dead scattered. In places the peasantswere forced to destroy their own crops. The voyager on theRhine to-day finds its chief charm in beholding the ruins of theonce beautiful castles, most famous those of Heidelberg, blownup by the lawless soldiers in 1693. The
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . 97 THE EXODUS TO AMERICA Every large city above Cologne was taken and robbed andmany burned. At Spires the imperial vaults were opened andthe ashes of the royal dead scattered. In places the peasantswere forced to destroy their own crops. The voyager on theRhine to-day finds its chief charm in beholding the ruins of theonce beautiful castles, most famous those of Heidelberg, blownup by the lawless soldiers in 1693. The number of people mur-dered by the French is estimated at 100, HEIDELBERG Heidelberg became the capital of the Palatinate in the thirteenth century, and re-mained so rive centuries, until 1720. The Castle, the ruins seen on the mountainside, dates also from the thirteenth century. It was blown up by the French in1689, and further wrecked in 1693. It is the most celebrated of the Rhine ruins, ap-pealing to historian and poet alike. In this Castle Luther was entertained by theCount Palatine, Wolfgang, May, 1518, attending in this city a Convention of Augus-tine monks. Through a theological debate at this time he won many friends wholater became noted supporters of his teachings, Brenz, Schnepf and Bucer. The former war was known in America as King GeorgesWar. There followed Queen Annes War. In 1707, theravages of the Palatinate were renewed. And then began thatexodus to London of the people from their once fair land, whichreached later to the number of thirty thousand, and which washedas a wave along the shore of England. Israel was not moreastound
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