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The Castle
care and diligence, the elector having summoned architects
from all parts , who proved their skill particularly in the
front and portal. Four beautifully wrought statues adorn
the entrance, over which the builder’s name is marked
along with the elector’s name, Mid the electoral arms;
to the right and left we behold two men, fighting with
lions. The celebrated Michael Angelo is somewhere re-
corded as the author of the design of the front. The build-
ing rises now in three floors; the large knights’-hall was
on the groundfloor; there were, on the right hand of it,
beautiful apartments, with vaults of bricks, and adorned
with fine sculpture; the second and third floors contained
the elector’s apartments. Niches are applied towards the
outside, in which there are put up, in an old combination
of characters, taken from Holy Writ, profane mythology
and allegorical subjects from the Roman history. In the
niches of the groundfloor the statues of Josua, Samson,
Hercules and David are exhibited, with rhimes underneath
themjjin the middle row’we behold five allegorical figures,
from the left to the right: Strength, Faith, Love,
Hope and Justice, with their attributes; in the third
row we see the statues of Saturnus, Mars, Venus, Mer-
cury, Diana, and above these, in the former gableends,
Pluto, to the left, and Jupiter, to the right. Besides
these, there are exhibited in the pediments, the subsequent
busts of, for the greater part, Roman imperators: Vitel-
lius Imperator, Antoninus Pius, Tiberius Claudius Nero,
. . . Nero Caesar, . . . C. Marius, M. Antonius, Rom. N.
Pamphilius, M. Brutus. Above the front this building
terminated in two gabelwalls, with a high peaked roof.
This suberb palace had sustained great damage, already
in the thirty years war, when the castle was fired upon
from the garden (1633); but they were restored by Charles
Lewis (1659) after the termination of the war. In the
The Castle
care and diligence, the elector having summoned architects
from all parts , who proved their skill particularly in the
front and portal. Four beautifully wrought statues adorn
the entrance, over which the builder’s name is marked
along with the elector’s name, Mid the electoral arms;
to the right and left we behold two men, fighting with
lions. The celebrated Michael Angelo is somewhere re-
corded as the author of the design of the front. The build-
ing rises now in three floors; the large knights’-hall was
on the groundfloor; there were, on the right hand of it,
beautiful apartments, with vaults of bricks, and adorned
with fine sculpture; the second and third floors contained
the elector’s apartments. Niches are applied towards the
outside, in which there are put up, in an old combination
of characters, taken from Holy Writ, profane mythology
and allegorical subjects from the Roman history. In the
niches of the groundfloor the statues of Josua, Samson,
Hercules and David are exhibited, with rhimes underneath
themjjin the middle row’we behold five allegorical figures,
from the left to the right: Strength, Faith, Love,
Hope and Justice, with their attributes; in the third
row we see the statues of Saturnus, Mars, Venus, Mer-
cury, Diana, and above these, in the former gableends,
Pluto, to the left, and Jupiter, to the right. Besides
these, there are exhibited in the pediments, the subsequent
busts of, for the greater part, Roman imperators: Vitel-
lius Imperator, Antoninus Pius, Tiberius Claudius Nero,
. . . Nero Caesar, . . . C. Marius, M. Antonius, Rom. N.
Pamphilius, M. Brutus. Above the front this building
terminated in two gabelwalls, with a high peaked roof.
This suberb palace had sustained great damage, already
in the thirty years war, when the castle was fired upon
from the garden (1633); but they were restored by Charles
Lewis (1659) after the termination of the war. In the