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It is a very old city, as you may judge from the buildings you have already seen, many of which are just as they were four hundred years ago. The town is of great historical interest." "What was the Council of Constance, sir?" asked one of the students. "I will tell you when we visit the Kaufhaus," replied the professor.
The party were conducted immediately to a large room with wooden pillars. "This is the Kaufhaus, and this apartment is the one in which the Council of Constance held its sessions," said Mr. Mapps. "What's a Kaufhaus?" asked one of the boys who did not study German. "What does Kaufen mean?" "To buy." "Then it is a buy-house.
Attended by several guides, the excursionists walked to the minster, a Gothic structure founded in the eleventh century, but rebuilt in the sixteenth. The guides indicated the spot where Huss stood when sentenced to be burned to death. From this church the party went to the Kaufhaus. The Kaufhaus is situated near the border of the lake. It was built for a warehouse in 1388.
A glance at the university, the Kaufhaus, the statue of Schwarz, the inventor of gunpowder, and a walk around the Schlossberg, or Castle Hill, which commands a splendid view of the Black Forest Mountains, exhausted the place, and at the time appointed the party reassembled at the railroad station, where Mr.
Flemming called to his servant, and the servant to the postilion, for an explanation of this short dialogue; and the explanation was, that on the belfry of the Kaufhaus in Coblentz, is a huge head, with a brazen helmet and a beard; and whenever the clock strikes, at each stroke of the hammer, this giant's head opens its great jaws and smites its teeth together, as if, like the brazen head of Friar Bacon, it would say; "Time was; Time is; Time is past."
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