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Updated: June 4, 2025
By Weinheim only an empty tower remained of the Castle of Windeck. He lay for the night in the great whitewashed guest-chamber of the Capuchin convent. The national rivers, like the national woods, have a family likeness: the Main, the Lahn, the Moselle, the Neckar, the Rhine.
"I am so hungry that in lack of better food I think I could eat my grandmamma." The sentinel laughed at this hyperbolical expression of hunger, and said, "You had best go sleep at the Castle of Windeck yonder;" adding with a peculiarly knowing look, "Nobody will disturb you there."
She must, however, have found words to utter when, later, the gallant knight begged her seriously to remain at Windeck as his wife for ere nightfall the old Dean, grumbling and somewhat reluctant, was called upon to consent to his nieces betrothal. This he did at length, when Imma had joined her entreaties to those of her lover.
Tell the knight of Windeck that the people of Strassburg mean to attack his castle on the morrow, and that his only means of resisting them is to dig a deep trench across the one possible approach. But stay there is no time for that; I will give you something wherewith to dig the trench.
On his finger was a ring of quaint design which he had not been known to wear, and it was whispered among the peasantry that the ghost-maid of Windeck had claimed her lover. The Hennegraben Hard by the Schloss Windeck lay a deep trench, known as the Hennegraben, of which traces may still be found.
When they learned that the Dean was free they called for a truce, and it was not blood, but wine, which flowed that day, for all were invited to share the wedding-feast of Imma and the knight of Windeck. The Klingelkapelle On the road between Gernsbach and Eberstein there once stood an ancient, moss-grown cell.
It is rendered immortal by reason of the following romantic legend, which tells of its magical origin. A certain young knight, lord of the castle of Windeck, for some unknown reason had seized and imprisoned the worthy Dean of Strassburg.
Perchance, mimicked the old woman, aye, perchance! Think you the knight of Windeck will take such lads as you are for hostages? And in truth they were not an imposing couple the elder a slim, fragile youth, whose eyes were already tearful at the prospect of confronting his uncles captor; while the younger was a mere boy, sanguine and adventuresome as children often are.
They rattled through the paved streets of Weinheim, and took no heed of the host of the Golden Eagle, who stood so invitingly at the door of his own inn; and the ruins of Burg Windeck, above there, on its mountain throne, frowned at them for hurrying by, without staying to do him homage. "The old ruin looks well from the valley," said the Baron; "but let us beware of climbing that steep hill.
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