KYFFHAUSER
, a See also:double See also:line of hills in Thuringia, See also:Germany
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The See also:northern See also:part looks steeply down upon the valley of the Goldene Aue, and is crowned by two ruined castles, Rothenburg (1440 ft.) on the See also:west, and Kyffhausen (1542 ft.) on the See also:east
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The latter, built probably in the loth See also:century, was frequently the See also:residence of the See also:Hohenstaufen emperors, and was finally destroyed in the 16th century
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The existing ruins are those of the Oberburg with its See also:tower, and of the Unterburg with its See also:chapel
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The See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill is surmounted by an imposing See also:monument to the See also:emperor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I., the equestrian statue of the emperor being 31 ft
.
high and the height of the whole 210 ft
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This was erected in 1596
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According to an old and popular See also:legend, the emperor See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa sits asleep beside a See also:marble table in the interior of the See also:mountain, surrounded by his knights, awaiting the destined See also:day when he shall awaken and See also:lead the See also:united peoples of Germany against her enemies, and so inaugurate an era of unexampled See also:glory
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But G
.
See also:Vogt has advanced cogent reasons (see His'
.
Zeitschrift, See also:xxvi
.
131-187) for believing that the real See also:hero of the legend is the other See also:great Hohenstaufen emperor, Frederick II., not Frederick I
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Around him gradually crystallized the hopes of the See also:German peoples, and to him they looked for help in the See also:hour of their sorest need
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But this is not the only legend of a slumbering future deliverer which lives on in Germany
.
Similar hopes cling to the memory of See also:Charlemagne, sleeping in a hill near See also:Paderborn; to that of the Saxon hero See also:Widukind, in a hill in See also:Westphalia; to Siegfried, in the hill of Geroldseck; and to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I., in a hill near See also:Goslar
.
See See also:Richter, Das deutsche Kyffhdusergebirge (See also:Eisleben, 1876) ; Lei-twice, Der deutsche Kaisertraum and der Kyffhduser (See also:Magdeburg, 1887) ; and Fzihrer See also:lurch (Ls Kyffhdusergebirge (See also:Sangerhausen, 1891) ; Baltzer, Das Kyffhdusergebirge (See also:Rudolstadt, 1882) ; A
.
See also:Fulda, See also:Die Kvffhdusersage (Sangerhausen, 1889) ; and Anemuller, Kyffhauser and Rothenburg (Detmold, 1892)
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