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464 Route 47. GODESBERG. From Cologne
to Nonnenwerth, then drop down the river to Konigswinter,
ascend the Drachenfels, and return to Bonn by the steam-boat:
‘ this most interesting excursion need not take up more than a day: |i
| eure The Railway passes on 1. a. Gothic cross called Hochkreus
erected beside the high road, about 3. m. from Bonn, hy Walram [it
"of Juliers, Abp. of Cologne in 1331; on the rt. of the line, at somé pi
little distance, is Frizsporr where are alum works and brown coil
mines, whence the valuable pigment, called Cologne earth, o?
burnt umber, is obtained. Many fossil remains and trunks of rE
enormous trees have been dug up here. L.
1. Goprsrre. Inns: Blinzler’s H.; — H.' de Bellevue; — the ja:
latter built as a Kursaal by the last Elector of Cologne who hady |
prior to the breaking out of the French Rev., intended to make [f
this village a watering place. 4000Inhabs. a
This village, prettily situated on the high road from Bonn to Cae fo
blentz at about 1 4/4 m. from the Rhine, is celebrated for its mineral |'s
spring, Draitscher Brunnen, where there are baths, 10 ser. each, |
The hill is crowned by a ruined Castle, erected in 1212 by am ji
Abp. of Cologne on the site of a Roman fort. In 1383 it was |
takerf by the Bavarians from the adherents of the deposed Alpe j-q
Gebhard Truchsess, and blown op. A beautiful view of thé |s
_Rhine may be obtained from the Donjon tower, built in 1340) (0
which is 100 ft. high: the key is kept at the well below. The |i
interior of the castle has been converted into a churchyard.
Leaving Godesberg the Rly. approaches still nearer to the bank jal
of the Rhine, on the opposite side of which is seen KONIGSWINTER) [3
(Inns: H. de Berlin; —H. de Europe.) , a small village of 1650 (0
Iuhabs., pleasantly situated at the foot of the Drachenfels, the [41
ascent of which may be made from here in halfanhour. Donkeys |i
: for the ascent, 10 sgy. each. The Seven Mountains, Sieben
| gebirge, of which the Drachenfels is oné;are the highest and wild= }+i
est mountains in the valley of the Rhine, which, properly speale
ing, terminates here; they rise in towering majesty above its |#
hanks, and are almost all crowned either by a chapel or the ruils /¢
of some castle or tower. The principal summits are Oelbergy
1455 ft. high; Liwenberg, 1414 ft.; Niederstromberg, 1066 ft5)
Drachenfels, 1036 ft.; Wolkenberg, 1038 ft.; Stromberg, 1053 ff
and Hemmerich. The most interesting of all is « the castled crag
' of Drachenfels », which rises abruptly from the river-side, and is
i) crowned by a ruined keep-tower of very solid masonry, the view
from which is truly magnificent, extending down the river as fat |
as Cologne; the principal objects are Bonn with its University, the
donjon-tower of Godesherg, the crater of Roderberg, the island of
Nonnenwerth, with the ruined arch and turrets of the castle ad ©
Rolandseck, Remagen and the wooded height of Apollinarisberg § |