By Robert R. Taylor
Faraway from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine mirror significant adjustments in Germany and Europe through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Taylor starts off The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the most important political, social and highbrow alterations that prompted fort rebuilding within the 19th century. He then specializes in chosen castles, describing their turbulent histories from the time in their unique development, via their destruction or decay, to their rediscovery within the 1800s and their endured protection this day. examining this publication is reminiscent of historical past although a romantic-nationalist kaleidoscope. Amply illustrated with maps and pictures, The Castles of the Rhine is a superb significant other for someone with desires or event of touring alongside the Rhine.
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In 1836 King Frederick William III was treated to a cruise on the Rhine on a steamship piloted by Peter Heinrich Merkens of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and president of the Prussian-Rhenish Steamship Company. Immediately after the Political and Economic Power on the Middle Rhine I 43 1848 disturbances there were several manifestations of loyalty to the Hohenzollerns in the towns of the Middle Rhine. 27 Ultimately the Rhinelanders found themselves at home in Prussia. August von der Heydt, a liberal Rhenish banker, became Prussian minister of Finance in 1866.
Burg Leyen near Linz and Wblkenburg near Konigswinter were notable quarrying victims. Gutenfels near Kaub was threatened by a quarrying enterprise sanctioned by the government of Nassau. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, decay and depredation had eliminated all traces of some castles. 20 The steam engine was indeed invading the very precincts of the castles and embodied a unique threat to their future. Even before 1800 the Industrial Revolution had begun to transform the Rhenish economy and landscape.
Ethnic and nationalistic pride played a certain role in these measures. Certainly the reconstruction of the pre-conquest Place Royale in Quebec City is at least partly an attempt to affirm the presence of francophone culture in North America. The American movement had begun earlier than the Canadian. In the United States the first important example of architectural heritage conservation was probably the founding in 1853 of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in order to save George Washington's home from speculators.