The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-12-16

after the invention of the art of printing,
there existed printing -office at this place.
1t has 1890 inhabitants. The castle was
built in 1880 by Archbishop Baldwin OF
Triers
After leaving Bieberich, Hattenheim,
noted for the celebrated "Marksbrunner''
wine, is passed; and further on, on the
right, is located the celebrated Castle Jo-
hannisberg, belonging to Prince Meter
mich, with vineyard of 65 acres, where
the celebrated "Johannisberg wine" is
produced. Castle Johannesburg, was in
the year 1106 cloister of Benedictines
belonging to the Abby of Fulda. In 1909
it became the property of the Prince
of Orange; in 1905 Marshal Keller
man received it as a present from Napo-
leon l.; in 1914 Prince Metternich received
lage Johannisberg has 900 inhabitants.
Geisenheim, on the right bank of the
Rhine, is very clearly looking borough
town, noted for its wines. The church
there was built in the 18th century. 1t
has $500 inhabitants. From the Temple
upon the Niederwald one has the most
beautiful view of the whole Rheingau.-
AT the foot of the latter extends the town
of Rudesheim, so famous for its wine. 1t
has 1900 inhabitants. The Low or Brom-
ser Castle, q rough and rugged heap of
rocks, originates from the time of the Ro-
mans. At present it is property of the
Count of Ingelheim. Behind it rises the
Upper or Roosen Castle, an cid, obelisk-
like tower. 1t belongs now to Count
Schonborn. The ruins of Ehrenfels are
seen from this point. This castle was
built by Philip of Bolandcn, in the year
1910, and was destroyed in 1859 by the
French.
Nearly opposite the mouth of the river
Maize, which enters the Rhine at this point,
upon rock of quartz in the middle of the
Rhine, stands forth the celebrated Mouse
Tower. In the Middle Ages it was tower
for receiving custom or tolls, and was re-
built in the form of ward tower in 1856,
serving as a warning station, where, by
means of signals, ship sailing down
stream is warned betimes, when at the
Bingerlock, that ship is approaching
from below.
The Bingerlock is rapid gush Of the
stream, most closely concentrated by pow
erful rocky stoncheops, the enlargement of
which has now and then been tried by all
sorts of work, since the time of the Romans
till down to the present day. The last
stone breakings took place under the reign
of Frederick William the Third, king of
Prussia, from 1880 till 1882 monument
erected upon such broken stones, on the
left bank, has preserved this event for pos
terity. The Mouse tower, was the inse-
cure resort ofthe treacherous Bishop HATS,
who created "corner" in corn and invited
the poor to partake of his stock on hand,
without price; but getting them into his
barn closed the door and set it on fire.
An army of mice, probably those driven
from the barn by the conflagration, took
the matter of revenge into their own hands,
and made an attack in force upon the
Bishop, who, to escape from the threatening
danger, fled to this tower on the Rhine
But the mice were "too many" for him, and
followed him and succeeded in effecting
an entrance to the tower, and they gnawed
the flesh from every limb.
Respectfully A. T. SHERTzER,
Staff Surgeon, 18Th Corps, Prussian Army.