. Romantic Germany. darches a square full of ferns and foliage, a fittingplace to ruminate the days experience and to enjoythe steeple above the choir. The Albrechtsburg, one of the finest of fifteenth-century castles, is the successor of a stronghold builtin 928 by Henry I in the long German struggleagainst the Slavic inhabitants of the mark of Meis-sen. It was begun in 1471 by the noted architectArnold of Westphalia, and until the court was trans-ferred to Dresden was the residence of the Saxonprinces. After that it long lay neglected; then for acentury and a half it suffered the indignity o
. Romantic Germany. darches a square full of ferns and foliage, a fittingplace to ruminate the days experience and to enjoythe steeple above the choir. The Albrechtsburg, one of the finest of fifteenth-century castles, is the successor of a stronghold builtin 928 by Henry I in the long German struggleagainst the Slavic inhabitants of the mark of Meis-sen. It was begun in 1471 by the noted architectArnold of Westphalia, and until the court was trans-ferred to Dresden was the residence of the Saxonprinces. After that it long lay neglected; then for acentury and a half it suffered the indignity of serv-ing as the royal porcelain factory. In 1881 it wasrestored and over-decorated, so that the exterior ismore noteworthy than the long line of nobly vaultedand gaily frescoed halls which strangers visit. Theglory of the Burg is its stair-tower, with wide Gothicarches framing the spiral stair inside. It is coveredwith convivial reliefs, taken, according to the guide,from the profane life. They are of the same 270. ASCKNT TO THE MEISSEN period as those on the famous Rathaus in Breslau,and aknost as grossly humorous. I like to think that from this fair Castle Moun-tain Christianity and culture spread in waves throughcentral Germany, and that it was the base for thegreat military expeditions by which the hero Al-brecht helped to lay for Saxony the foundations ofnational unity. The porcelain factory in the Triebisch-Thal, in-teresting as it is, has quite unjustly monopolized thefame of Meissen. And a glimpse of the Burg fromthe riverside, a ramble up the Ascent of Souls, or amoment in the cloister of the cathedral, is far to bepreferred to a whole Triebisch-Thal full of Meissenservices and rococo figurines. 273
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