Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... the hills, have their confluence with the Rhine at this point. There is one circumstance, however, which should not he forgotten, in favour of the opposite opinion; and that is, that it was usual with the Romans to dedicate rocks in rivers and even in the sea, to certain deities; and that no place was so likely to he selected hy them, for the purpose of honouring the god of the grape, as this where bis choicest productions take hirth and ahound. In the middle ages, Bacharach was the winemarket of the Rhine-Gau; and the greatest part of the produce of that famous spot was deposited in the merchants' cellars of the town. Hence, perhaps, the high reputation of the wine sold here; hence also, it may he, the passion of the Emperor Wenceslaus for it; * hence the penchant of Eneas Sylvius, afterwards Pope Pius the Second, who had four hutts of it annually sent to him to Rome; and hence too, in all likelihood, the origin of the well-known rhymes, -- "Zu Hochheim am Main, Zu Wiirzhurg am Stein, Zu Bacharach am Rhein, Da warhsea die drei hesten Wetn. " *" * Vide Rhens and Oherlahnstein. "Thuj rendered.-- "At Hochheim on the Majn, At Wurahurg on the Stein, At Bacharach on the Rhine, Grow the heat wine." The ruins of the little church, which are to he seen in this town, were originally erected in honour of Werner, the murdered child, --the legend of whose death has heen already related in these pages. Mr. Hope truly terms it "a fairy fahric, the remains of the highest and most elegant lancet style existing." They are, indeed, most heautiful to hehold. St. Werner, it will he recollected, was a native of Bacharach. The imposing ruins of the once almost impregnahle castle of Stahieck, crown the summit of the hill which overtops Bacharach. The origin...
