The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine

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Mansfield Milburg Francisco. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine

I. INTRODUCTORY

II. THE RHINE CITIES AND TOWNS

III. THE CHURCH IN GERMANY

IV. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF RHENISH. ARCHITECTURE

V. THE ACCESSORIES OF GERMAN CHURCHES

VI. CONSTANCE AND SCHAFFHAUSEN

VII. BASEL AND COLMAR

VIII. FREIBURG

IX. STRASBURG

X. METZ

XI. SPEYER

XII. CARLSRUHE, DARMSTADT, AND WIESBADEN

XIII. HEIDELBERG AND MANNHEIM

XIV. WORMS

XV. FRANKFORT

XVI. MAYENCE

XVII. BACHARACH, BINGEN, AND RUDESHEIM

XVIII. LIMBURG

XIX. COBLENZ AND BOPPART

XX. LAACH AND STOLZENFELS

XXI. ANDERNACH AND SINZIG

XXII. TRÈVES

XXIII. BONN

XXIV. GODESBERG AND ROLANDSECK

XXV. COLOGNE AND ITS CATHEDRAL

XXVI. THE CHURCHES OF COLOGNE

XXVII. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE

XXVIII. LIÈGE

XXIX. DÜSSELDORF, NEUSS, AND MÜNCHEN-GLADBACH

XXX. ESSEN AND DORTMUND

XXXI. EMMERICH, CLÈVES, AND XANTEN

XXXII. ARNHEIM, UTRECHT, AND LEYDEN

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There is no topographical division of Europe which more readily defines itself and its limits than the Rhine valley from Schaffhausen to where the river empties into the North Sea.

The region has given birth to history and legend of a most fascinating character, and the manners and customs of the people who dwell along its banks are varied and picturesque.

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In addition, there are ever to be found evidences of the frugality and thrift of the Germans which preserve the best traditions of other days.

The love of the Rhineland in the breast of the Teuton is an indescribable sentiment; a confusion of the higher and lower emotions. It is characteristic of the national genius. We have been told, and rightly: "You cannot paint the Rhine, you cannot even describe it, for picture or poem would leave out half of the whole delicious confusion. The Rhine, however, can be set to music," and that apparently is just what has been done.

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