The Story of Nuremberg

"Here, when Art was still Religion, with a simple, reverent hart, Lived and laboured Albrecht Dürer, the evangelist of Art; Hence in silence and in sorrow, toiling still with bu...

Nuremberg is rich in churches, those sermons in stones so much more eloquent than any words that ever fell from the lips of the preachers. The Gothic style has been finely calle...

We have watched the dawning sun of Nuremberg's greatness rise over the forest till now it has reached the _Mittags_-quarter. We have seen, to change the metaphor, the little fou...

"Aufwärts Ich mit dem Alten ging Nach einer königlichen Veste, Am Fels erbauet auf das Beste; Manch Thurm auf Felsvorsprüngen lag, Darin ein kaiserlich Gemach. Geziert nach meis...

Year by year, many a traveller on his way to Bayreuth, many a seeker after health at German baths, many an artist and lover of the old world, finds his way to Nuremberg. It is i...

The Catholic Reaction was now in full swing. With the determination of Catholicism to regain her ancient dominion came the Thirty Years War, the last and cruellest of the religi...

Karl IV. proceeded to confirm the privileges of the town for a cash consideration. That was the way of mediæval monarchs. We have seen that the finances of Nuremberg were not at...

We have seen how in gradual and piecemeal fashion the Council, as representative of Nuremberg, acquired the character of an imperial state on an equality with the reigning princ...

The following scheme may perhaps prove of use to those who have but a day or two to spend in Nuremberg and wish to glance at the chief places of interest:--

(Entrance in the Vordere Karthäusergasse. Open 10-1 A.M. and 2-4.30 P.M. summer, 2-4 P.M. winter. Fee, 1 mark. Free Sundays, and in winter also on Wednesdays. Sticks, etc., must...

"Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler poet, laureate of the gentle craft, Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed.... Not thy Councils, not thy Kaisers, win f...

Every other house in Nuremberg, whether in the narrow and crooked side streets, or in the busy thoroughfares, is, as it were, a leaf from some mediæval chronicle. Here, in the H...

"Da sass ein Vogel wunderschön, Wie ein Adler war er anzusehn Kohlschwarz, der hatt' allda gehecket. Seine linke Seit' war ihm bedecket Mit lichten Rosen, roth und weiss, Fein a...

_All the illustrations with the exception of the frontispiece, "St. Anthony" and "Albert Durer as a boy" have been drawn by Miss James, or cut in wood from the beautiful photogr...