Romantic Germany (1910) (14598105830)

Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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e, and the picturesque canalwas dug to drain it; but the lake was too lazy evenfor canal adventures, and had to be filled in, a laborof years. For the greater part of his reign Fred-erick William I struggled obstinately with this prob-lem, but the site of the Lazy Lake could not becalled terra firma until his son brought more modernmethods to bear on it. The domestic architecture of Potsdam may bestbe studied in the Nauener, Charlotten, and HoditzStrassen. Under the two soldier-kings, even thehouses were forced into uniform, and one may seewhole streets of quaint, two-storied facades, withbaldachined windows and tall classical columnstopped by putti and plump urns of plenty, a dig-nified style, staid and self-important perhaps, yetgracious and in perfect harmony with its setting. As one goes westward, farther and farther fromthe asperities of Berlin, the atmosphere growsfriendlier, and, as it seems, less Prussian, until—wonder of wonders!—there appears a real Italiancampanile. 116
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TlIU OLD MAKKI-T POTSDAM That lover of Italy, Frederick William IV,modeled the Church of Peace after the Roman SanClemente, with a bell-tower copied after SantaMaria in Cosmedin. The corner-stone was laid onthe centenary of Sans Souci, and the king wrote toBishop Eylert: After much thought, I will name the new suburbanchurch Christ Church or Church of Peace. A churchbelonging to the grounds of a palace that bears the nameSans Souci, Care-free, strikes me as suitable to dedicateto the eternal Prince of Peace; and so to confront—or, bet-ter still, to contrast—the worldly negative Care-free withthe spiritually positive Peace. Here in the mausoleum the Emperor Freder-ick III (father of the present Emperor) lies in asarcophagus of Greek marble under a dome of Vene-tian mosaic. But the cloisters are best of all. Tocome suddenly upon such cloisters in Prussia is asthough an arctic explorer should stumble upon abeaker full of the warm south. Near the mausoleum entrance are RanchsMoses and