Die Externsteine ...
Series: Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande, Bonn. Fest-programm zu Winckelmanns Geburtstage.; 1858
Publisher: Gedr. auf Kosten des Vereins
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Bonn
Language: ger
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Bas-relief; Externsteine (Germany)
Notes: The preface includes bibliographical foot-notes.
Preface signed: Prof. Dr. Braun.
With special reference to the relief representing the Descent from the Cross (12th? cent.) hewn out of one of the rocks--known as "Externsteine" near Horn in the principality of Lippe--in the vicinity of a cave-like shrine (originally devoted to the Mithrascult?) consecrated in 1115 as a Christian chapel.
The frontispiece is a reproductin of the relief.