Volume 4

Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Giving a true and just description of the present state of those countries; their natural, literary, and political history; manners, laws, commerce, manufactures, painting, sculpture, architecture, coins, antiquities, curiosities of art and nature, etc / Illus. with copper-plates, engr. from drawings taken on the spot, by John George Keysler. Carefully translated from the second edition of the German.

  • Keyssler, Johann Georg, 1693-1743.
Date:
1756-1757
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Credit: Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Giving a true and just description of the present state of those countries; their natural, literary, and political history; manners, laws, commerce, manufactures, painting, sculpture, architecture, coins, antiquities, curiosities of art and nature, etc / Illus. with copper-plates, engr. from drawings taken on the spot, by John George Keysler. Carefully translated from the second edition of the German. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    St. Stephe7is tower is called the Albertine from Albert IV. in whofe Albertine reign it was liniflied, in the year 1400. to^er. This bell, according to D. Kuchelbecker^ is above ten feet in height, and thirty-two in circumference ; and, without the clapper, weighs feventeen tuns and an half. The clapper, which is eleven feet and an half long, weighs thirteen hundred and twenty-eight pounds j and the whole weight of the bell, iron-work, tAc, amounts to twenty-five tuns and fourteen hundred weight.'^ The height of St. Stephen'^, tower is four hundred and forty-feven Aujirla?i feet and an half, or feventy-four fathoms and three feet and an half. For thefe two years paff, if any woman comes in an Andriemie^ Volatife French or French fack, as it is called, either into St. '^tephen\^ or any other large church at Vienna^ fhe is immediately ordered to v.^ithdraw. It was grown a cuflom among the ladies at Vienna^ in the morning, to flip on a fack, without flays, or hardly any other covering, and in that garb hurry away to mafs j which indecent cuflom occafioned the prefent imperial prohibition. The clergy, from the pulpit, have given ProUted at vent to their zeal againft fuch loofe dreffes in very bitter terms. One, Vienna, with great warmth, exclaimed, ‘ that the women came to church in ‘ facks, not to repent, as believers of old ufed to do, but the better to ' expofe their wares to fale; fo that no priefl, in adminiftering the ‘ facrament, could with a fafe confcience look on them.’ Another in¬ decently threaten’d, ‘ that if ever he fhould fee a lady with her neck ‘ uncovered, he’d fpit down her bofom/'f' A little before the wearing of facks in church was furpreffed, threeTadies, with their necks bare, and dreffed in the above-mentioned robe, prefented themfelves for the communion among other perfons round the altar 5 but the priefl paffed, by them as if he had overlooked them. The church that belongs to the court is near that of the barefooted Church helong^- AuguJiineSy and you afeend to it up a pair of ftairs out of the palace. Ferdinand III. had a -chapel built here, dedicated to St. Apollonia^ the ^ patronefs of the teeth, in confequence of a vow he had made when his fon, Leopold, cut his teeth. The tooth of Apollonia, fhewn here,, is likewife adored and kifled by the vulgar, who imagine the touch of it. * This bell of Vienna is larger than that of Erfurt. But of all the bells hitherto known in Europe, thofe lately caft in France for the new church at Lijbon are the moft aflonifhing. They come little fhort of the great bell at Pekin in China-, the weight of which is faid to be a hundred and twenty thoufand pounds: Whereas that of Erfurt is only twenty-five thou- fand four hundred. See Ath. Kircher. Chin, monum. illujir. p. 223.- 4 This zealot feems to have been a remarkable follower of the declaimer P. Abraham di St. Clara, who perhaps had gained a greater reputation had he not fpafon’d his invedlives and expoftulations with fuch ludicrous terms. aa