Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-14
TRAVELS IN GERMANY.
VIEWS OF CITIES AsD CUSTOMS OF
TIE PEOPLE.
Munich andits Adornments--Fine Churches,
Iheaters rad tibrarIss-Augsburg
nuremberg and Bohemia-btc.
For the Rsoosp. UNlox by Peof. E. Kemen.l

founded by Henry, the " Lion-heaFleu'
and is located in a sterile and unsttractiye
plain on the river Isar. Far in the back
ground lie the Bavarian Alps. The hand
gone buildings and edifices which the ar
tistic taste of King Louis 1. has caused to
be erected, as well az the priceless art
treasures which Munich contains, has
placed it on an equal footing with the
largest cities of Europe. We shall de-
scribe some of the chief edifices. The
royal residence consists OF the old and the
new palace. The exterior of the old pal
ace has au Indifferent appearance, bnt the
interior ia full of splendor and luxury. It
contains many statues and curiosities. The
new palace, or Rockingham, is richly pro-
vided with marble figures and fresco- paint
ings, among which are several representa-
tions of the Nibelungen. This is the pres
emit royal abode. a new wing, called Fest
saalban, built in the Venetian style, has
been added to this palace. Ten massive
columns supports its grand portal. On the
main floor is the magnificent crown hall,
containing fourteen colossal bronze statues
of Bavarian princes, cast after the models
OF Schwanthaler, and adjoining it are three
imperial halls equally MAJ nihcent In one
of the imperial chambers stands a gala bed,
in the embroidery and adornment of which
three hundred and nineteen pounds Of gold
were employed Next comes
THE MAMMALIAN PALACE
And the ducal palace of Leuchtenberg
The former has large collection of draw
ings, miniatures and ivory works; the
latter fine picture gallery. The Royal
Academy of Arts and Sciences has large
collections of antiquities and objects of
art, also a natural cabinet, including the
Museum Brasiianum. The Bibliothek or
library, is one Of the finest buildings in
Munich. 1t is built in the Florentine
style. Before It's triple portal are the
statues of AristOteles, Homer, Hippocrates
and Thucydides. 1t contains over eight
hundred thousand volumes. The Glyp-
sothek, or sta,uary building, has a portioo
supported by twelve columns and four
pillars, and on the outside there are colos.
sal marble statues, representing historical
and NEUROLOGICAL personalities. The old
and the new Pinakothek picture gal:eries)
have the richest collection of paintings to
be found ia Germany. Besides paintings
they contain cabinets of Grecian and Etru-
rian vases, a cabinet of fossils and collec-
lions of porcelain paintings, engravings
1900 900 plates) and drawings of ole mas
tiers 10 600 ieaves) Tae old Pinakothek
is built in the Roman style, and it's main
portal has tWenty.four statues OF celebrated
painters.
TIE ROYAL THEATBR
Is the largest in Germany; it has grand
portico and is built in imitation of the
Theater La Scala of Milan. 4 remarkable
erection is the Propilaen. This ia a triple
triumphal arch, built in the Dorian style.
OF the churches Of Munich l will mention
few. The Court-chspel, adjoining the
royal residence, is built in the Italian-Byz
antine style its walls have gilded ground
and are laid over with colored marble and
fresco-pictures of the New and Old Testa.
ment. The st. Boniface Church, in Ba.
silic form, is an accomplished and noble
work of Zebland its splendid roof is
resting upon sixty-four marble columns.
This church is also covered with fresco-
paintings. The Church of st. Louis, with
its fine towers and the celebrated fresco.
paintings by Cornelius, among which is the
g Last Judgment, is built also in the Ital
sn.Byzantine style. The Church of st.
Peter has many fine paintings from the
e -
Theatiner Church, holding the royal
family vaults the Churches of the Holy
Ghost, of Our Lady and Michaelshof are
also handsome structures. Munich has
some very
FINE STREETS AND PUBLIC SQUARES.
Among the public monuments some deserve
special mention. The gigantic bronze
statue Bavaria" cast upon model by
Schwanthaler, stands on q pedestal thirty
feet high. Through a small door in the
pedestal You ascend a staircase of sixty
steps to the foot OF the celoss, and thence
another sixty steps through the body, will
bring YOU into its head, in which there is
standing room for thirty persons. Through
openings in the curls OF hair of this mon
ster. a fair view of the city and country is
had. The hight of the giant from the
soles of the feet to the top of the head is
sixty-six feet, making ninety-six feet with
the pedestal The statues Of the compos-
ers Cluck and Orlando di Lasso, those Of
Chancellor Kreitemayr, of Westenrieder,
the historian, and between them that Of
Prince Max Emanuel, the coDqueror of
Belgrade, stand on the Promensdenplatz.
There are also the statues of Macmillan ].
on the Wittelbacherplatz that of Max
Joseph en- the square of she same name,
and the hundred feet high obelisk in
bronze,
A MEMENro OF THE 80, 900 BAvARIANs
Who, in 1912, followed Napoleon into
Russia, and of which not q soul ever re-
turned. The reader will pardon my some
what minute description of Munich, if he
is told that the object into show how little
we generally know about the many inter-
esting and instructive curiosities to be seen
in hundreds of cities of the world, whose
names are hardly known to us. l might
describe at some length larger cities, such
as Berlin or Vienna but here is city
with less than two hundred thousand in
habitants, rivaling the greatest capitals of
Europe and the famous classical cities Of
Italy in objects of arts and sciences. Life
is pleasant and cheap in Munich. From
one to two dollars day will defrsy ex-
penses in comfortable hotel, equal in
accommodations to those charging a much
higher price in other countries. One thing
that strikes strangers is the large beer and
wine. halls. There ia no comparison be-
tween them and those generally seen.
With the exception of some of certain
class of those places, the beer-halls of Mu.
mich may be considered regular family re-
sorts of a decent and proper kind. Re-
spectable families do not disdain to visit
them and enjoy sOciable evening. There
are no traces of that boisterous and rough
element too often seen in some countries. l
have said that Bavarians
CONSUME LARGE QUANTITIES oF BEER.
This is true. But it does not imply any
habits of drunkenness. The climate, the
constitution of the people and the quality