Coblentz Koblenz On The Rhine Germany 1894 Antique Print
A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture.
Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 10" x 8" or 25cm x 20cm
Actual page including border and text is approx 12.75" x 10.5" or 32.5cm x 26.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction
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1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
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Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
COBLENTZ ON THE RHINE, GERMANY.—One of the most important of Rhenish cities Is.Coblentz, which lies at the meeting point of the Rhine and the Mosel., The waters of the streams do not at once assimilate. The Mosel preserves for a long time its emerald colour quite distinctly,as though unwilling to mingle its French waters with the waves of Germany. The historic souvenirs of this town are extremely interesting. The Romans founded here, 1,800 years ago, a city known as "Confluentia." Hither, after the death of Charlemagne, came his grandsons to divide between them his gigantic empire. In recent times it was a favourite residence of the Empress Augusta of Germany, wife of old Kaiser William. A bridge of boats connects this city with the opposite bank, where on a lofty hill, 400 feet in height, rises the celebrated fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, appropriately called the "Gibraltar of the Rhine." It is a stone Colossus effectively protecting this most important confluence of the two streams, and capable of instantly transforming the peaceful romance of the river into a tragedy of blood and iron. It is safe to say, therefore, that Coblentz will never pass out of the possession of the Germans; for the "Broad stone of Honour" which thus guards it is held to be impregnable, and day and night in massive majesty maintains its perpetual "Watch on the Rhine."