The Danube: its history, scenery and topography / [William Beattie].

  • William Beattie
Date:
[1844?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Danube: its history, scenery and topography / [William Beattie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Snj^blstaot.] CnjjOlOtatJt has been long remarkable for the beauty of its buildings, its straight and broad streets, and celebrared as the seat of a famous university. The number of students who frequented its halls, previous to the French revolution, amounted to eight hundred or upwards. The order of Jesuits has long had a particular academy an aimomy, composed of those ancient military weapons and accoutrements which figured in campaigns against the infidel, and, ha^ig received the benediction of the ‘ Hermit,’ were supposed to be endued with a charm wliich no Saracen blade could dissolve—a belief which inspired those who wielded them with courage and strength next to invincible. The great hall in the ducal palace is generally pointed out as one of the finest in Germany, exhibiting most of the striking features wliich distinguish those of its class and epoch. The gardens—or hof-garten—are pleasantly laid out, in a rather modem style, and command vaiious points of the landscape ; but by far the most imposing Hew is thatfi'om the battlements of the castle, the towers of which command the whole countrj' adjacent. About four miles from Neubmg, is a castellated remnant of the feudal ages, pic- tmesquely crowuiing an isolated rock, and commanding a fi'ee panorama of the suiTounding district. It is a complete ruin ; qiute pendous to shower and sunshine, but is still an ornament, where it was once a jirotection, to the hamlet which retains its ancient position under the ‘ castled ci'ag’ of Hiiting.
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