. Germany;. p you read : Through the butchers art can even swineFind their way into company fine. The baker retails his bread beneath this didacticword: Bread for your daily foodThis house bread for your immortal soulIn Gods Word lies. If there were no Rothenburg, how we would raveover Dinkelsbiihl and Nordlingen! Dinkelsbiihlis as a pendant to Rothenburg. It has noble wallsand gates. Its market-place is rich with greatbuildings that have the most interesting and im-pressive gables. St. Georges Church is worthy ofa great city. It is one of the finest examples ofGothic in South Ger
. Germany;. p you read : Through the butchers art can even swineFind their way into company fine. The baker retails his bread beneath this didacticword: Bread for your daily foodThis house bread for your immortal soulIn Gods Word lies. If there were no Rothenburg, how we would raveover Dinkelsbiihl and Nordlingen! Dinkelsbiihlis as a pendant to Rothenburg. It has noble wallsand gates. Its market-place is rich with greatbuildings that have the most interesting and im-pressive gables. St. Georges Church is worthy ofa great city. It is one of the finest examples ofGothic in South Germany. Here, as everywhere, the destruction and havocwrought by the Thirty Years War sank so deeplyinto the hearts and memories of men that, handeddown in tradition from generation to generation,its terrors still survive. Like Rothenburg, Din-kelsbiihl has a folk-play that recalls the story ofits deliverance from a threatening fate. On the ROTHENBURG The Klingentor, one of the fortified gates in thetown BAVARIA 99 third Monday of July this historic festival-play isperformed. It is called the childrens festival, andbegins in the great hall of the Corn Exchange. Itcarries the audience back to the terrible days ofthe wars of religion. The cannon thunder fromthe town walls and gates. Then the city fathersmeet to deliberate on the course they shouldpursue. The Swedish army is at their gates, andtheir means of defence have proved are falling in the streets, carryingdeath and destruction everywhere. They evencrash against the Council Chamber and find a lodg-ment in the thick walls. Unconditional surrenderis demanded by the Swedish commander. Despairenters their hearts and looks from their faces. Atthis moment of peril a young and slender maiden,the daughter of the town-watchman, enters theCouncil Chamber and proposes to the city fathersthat she, accompanied by all the school children,should act as intercessor. She has secretly drilledthe children, and the
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