. The Rhine and northern Germany: handbook for travellers. es on thePregel, 4 M. from its influx into the Frische Haff, which isdeep enough to admit vessels of large tonnage. The extensiveGranaries in the river testify to the commercial importance ofthe city. The Schloss (PI. 19), an unattractive building, founded about1257 by Ottokar, king of Bohemia, after the termination of acampaign against the pagan Prussians, was afterwards the resi-dence of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order, and sub-sequently, till 1525, that of the Dukes of Prussia. It is nowthe seat of the government and civic a
. The Rhine and northern Germany: handbook for travellers. es on thePregel, 4 M. from its influx into the Frische Haff, which isdeep enough to admit vessels of large tonnage. The extensiveGranaries in the river testify to the commercial importance ofthe city. The Schloss (PI. 19), an unattractive building, founded about1257 by Ottokar, king of Bohemia, after the termination of acampaign against the pagan Prussians, was afterwards the resi-dence of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order, and sub-sequently, till 1525, that of the Dukes of Prussia. It is nowthe seat of the government and civic authorities. In the Schloss-kirche Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, crowned himself asFrederick I., King of Prussia, on Jan. 18th, 1701. Above thechurch is the spacious Moskowiter Saal. *View from the tower. On the way from the palace to the Konigsgarten is situateda Statue of Kant (by Rauch), the celebrated author of the Sys-tem of Pure Reason. His house was Princessin-Str. No. 3 (PI. 8),where he died in 1804. Opp. is the Post-office, adjoining which D. DarmstadtEcDVagiier S--«T r> tlilfJriitt I Rossjarter Th i j,„; /y„,II iK>/^ IS Hal. > B .lfo//i™ !> AsBlSI birchen VhttV Trai/lmmrrimlmi Vl F 3 I on. Cfc F» | , rf M Tmy/mmrrb. mJlo*JC/ailJc/irlliir/<r 0* \
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