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It presents an excellent specimen of the kind of ecclesiastical architecture in which the Slavonians of the middle ages delighted. Moreover the Landhaus, or house of meeting for the estates of Moravia, till the times of Joseph II. a wealthy Augustinian convent, may be visited with advantage, as may also the Rath-haus and National Museum.
Among other objects in the Alt Stadt, which make powerful demands on the traveller's notice, the Rath-haus, or ancient Town-hall, and the Thein Kirche, stand conspicuously forward. The former is a quaint, irregular Gothic pile, in a very dilapidated state, of which the Council-chamber is fine, in its degree, and the little chapel curious.
Its lofty clock-tower with illuminated dial tells the time to all Berlin by night, and adds a charm to the group of royal palaces and museums on which it looks down. The ancient town-houses of North Germany most truly express the spirit of the old Hanse League; and the Rath-haus of Berlin, while keeping the spirit, adds the grand proportions and embellishments characteristic of the modern city.
We were passing the Rath-haus, or City Hall, a modern and imposing edifice, at the time when its great tower was being lighted up. Three hundred feet above the pavement floated the flags grouped in the centre and at the corners of the square tower.
It was in a dungeon beneath the Rath-haus that the Emperor Wenzel IV. suffered, in the year 1403, a fifteen weeks' imprisonment; and it was in the square, on which the windows of the hall look out, that the jousts and tournaments of the knightly age were carried forward.
So they spake in the spring woods; and meanwhile, in Mittwalden Rath-haus, the Republic was declared. THE reader well informed in modern history will not require details as to the fate of the Republic. Herr Roederer, with too much of an author's licence, makes a great figure of his hero poses him, indeed, to be the centre-piece and cloud-compeller of the whole.
In the Sophien Kirchof lies the philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn; and in that of the Garrison Church, De la Motte Fouqué, the author of "Undine." One of the most conspicuous public buildings is the Rath-haus, or Town Hall, erected at a cost of nearly two million dollars.
So they spake in the spring woods; and meanwhile, in Mittwalden Rath-haus, the Republic was declared. The reader well informed in modern history will not require details as to the fate of the Republic. Herr Roederer, with too much of an author's licence, makes a great figure of his hero poses him, indeed, to be the centrepiece and cloud-compeller of the whole.
Of the latter again, which fronts the Rath-haus, and so occupies a conspicuous position in the same square, why should I say more than has been said already? Here, in 1458, the states assembled to elect to the vacant throne the virtuous George of Podiebrad; here Huss preached, and John of Rokysan taught; and Tycho Brahe found here the last resting-place which is allotted to mortality.
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