Se llamaba la casa Schilling y había sido
construida por un monje Benedictino, dando alojamiento a viajeros y sus
familias en sus habitaciones lujosas. De la novela In
the Schillingscourt, de E. Marlitt…
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SCHILLINGSCOURT " was the name of that grand old house near the
Benedictine Church, but it always had heen, and continued to be, designated as
the " Column House," notwithstanding modern times had adorned whole
street fronts with great and small " columns' thus robbing the house of
its distinguishing peculiarity.
It had been
built by a Benedictine monk. In those days before harboring strangers had
become a municipal business travelers found shelter within the hospitable gates
of cloisters and knightly castles along their way. Some monastic orders erected
especial accommodations upon their property for this purpose, and thus the
Column House originated.
It had been a
very wealthy monastic society, and Brother Ambrosius, the architect and
sculptor, had come from Italy, enraptured with the beautiful plans that were to
become a monument to his genius as a lodgment suitable to the rank of the
princely personages who were in the habit of knocking at the cloister gates
when traveling through this part of the country with family and retinue.
This is how
there happened to distinguish up beside the homely gable house occupied by the monks this
most elegant facade, with its broad-columned hallway, that supported a second
story, with great bow-windows and arched cornices and consoles that were
beautifully carved...
The nineteenth
century can guess but little of the experiences of this foreigner on German
ground during those depressed times. The monastery then stood upon a common,
along the roadway of which only a few mud huts were scattered, whose
inhabitants scarcely ventured to peer out of their wooden window- shutters at
night when they heard tramping of horses and imperious voices in the vicinity
of the cloister.