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2.
Nach den Ohren bin ich ein Thier,
Nach den Augen sind meiner zwey,
Nach den Nasen sind unsrcr drey,
Aber mit dir und mir sind unsrer vier.
3.
Was thust du mich angaffen ?
Hast du ja geseh'n den alten Affen?
Zu Heydelberg sehau hin und her,
Da find'st du raeines gleichen mehr.
4.
Wer treibt zu viel
Verliert das Spiel;
Wer wenig trinkt,
Auch nicht bald hinkt.
As to my ears, I am an animal; as to
my eyes, there are two of us; as to
the noses, our number is three ; but
together with you and myself, there
are four of us.
3.
Why are you gazing at me ? Have you
not seen the old monkey ? if you '11
look about at Heidelberg you shall
see many a one like myself.
4.
Whoever ventures too much, will lose
the game; whoever does drink little,
will not easily halt.
By the side of this tun Perkeo, the prince's jester, carved in
wood, was standing, and may still be seen on the left of the stone
staircase.
But this repaired tun did not last long, getting soon leaky
again; Charles Theodore , therefore, ordered Engler, the present
cooper to the court, in 1751, to construct the tun now existing,
which can contain 283,200 common bottles. It is 30 feet and 5
inches long, and in the centre 23 feet high, the staves being 9
inches thick. It is bound with 18 wooden hoops ,8 —10 inches
thick, and with as many iron ones.
The wine could be poured into it from the cooper's workshop
above it, and drawn by means of a leaden pump fastened against
the wall, and thus distributed into the casks in the cellar of the
castle.
Nov. 10, 1752, this new tun was for the first time filled with
wine, which is said to have been done three times from that period
to the year 1764. When the castle was burnt down in the sum-
mer of 1764, it was emptied, and has not been used since.
Before the large tun there is lying a small artificial one with-
out hoops, which, probably, is coeval with it.
Dean von Wambold of this place possesses an interesting col-
lection of copperplate prints representing the different tuns that
have lain here.
29. The large balcony of the castle (Tab. IV, VII, VHL),
built under elector Frederic IV, after the completion of the build-
ing called after his name, about 1607. On this spot there arose
anciently the late ramparts of the castle, provided with loopholes,
stretching from the present octagon tower to the substruction of
the English building, where they turned towards the Rupert's-
building and enclosed the western front of the castle. In the front
of the ancient chapel of the castle a balcony with a guardhouse,
stretched along the rampart *). Owing to the erection of the an-
cient armory, the ancient rampart was pulled down from the oc-
tagon tower to the present balcony of the castle, and the armory
erected in its place; in like manner the ancient rampart of the
western front, together with the rampart which serves for a sub-
struction to the English building, was superstructed in 1530. Some
traces of the ancient rampart of the castle are still to be seen at the
bottom of the vaults underneath the balcony, and in the cellar near
the large tun.
About the year 1607, Frederic IV. went beyond the ancient
rampart, erecting on its site and on that of the outwork, up the
mount, the present balcony with its large vaults. At either corner
of this balcony there are two outjuttings of the original erection;
under it there is also a large hall Avith apartments adjoining it at
the western extremity, which served for guardrooms, and at the
eastern extremity a similar one intended for the like purpose. In
*) Vid. drawing VI. a.
2.
Nach den Ohren bin ich ein Thier,
Nach den Augen sind meiner zwey,
Nach den Nasen sind unsrcr drey,
Aber mit dir und mir sind unsrer vier.
3.
Was thust du mich angaffen ?
Hast du ja geseh'n den alten Affen?
Zu Heydelberg sehau hin und her,
Da find'st du raeines gleichen mehr.
4.
Wer treibt zu viel
Verliert das Spiel;
Wer wenig trinkt,
Auch nicht bald hinkt.
As to my ears, I am an animal; as to
my eyes, there are two of us; as to
the noses, our number is three ; but
together with you and myself, there
are four of us.
3.
Why are you gazing at me ? Have you
not seen the old monkey ? if you '11
look about at Heidelberg you shall
see many a one like myself.
4.
Whoever ventures too much, will lose
the game; whoever does drink little,
will not easily halt.
By the side of this tun Perkeo, the prince's jester, carved in
wood, was standing, and may still be seen on the left of the stone
staircase.
But this repaired tun did not last long, getting soon leaky
again; Charles Theodore , therefore, ordered Engler, the present
cooper to the court, in 1751, to construct the tun now existing,
which can contain 283,200 common bottles. It is 30 feet and 5
inches long, and in the centre 23 feet high, the staves being 9
inches thick. It is bound with 18 wooden hoops ,8 —10 inches
thick, and with as many iron ones.
The wine could be poured into it from the cooper's workshop
above it, and drawn by means of a leaden pump fastened against
the wall, and thus distributed into the casks in the cellar of the
castle.
Nov. 10, 1752, this new tun was for the first time filled with
wine, which is said to have been done three times from that period
to the year 1764. When the castle was burnt down in the sum-
mer of 1764, it was emptied, and has not been used since.
Before the large tun there is lying a small artificial one with-
out hoops, which, probably, is coeval with it.
Dean von Wambold of this place possesses an interesting col-
lection of copperplate prints representing the different tuns that
have lain here.
29. The large balcony of the castle (Tab. IV, VII, VHL),
built under elector Frederic IV, after the completion of the build-
ing called after his name, about 1607. On this spot there arose
anciently the late ramparts of the castle, provided with loopholes,
stretching from the present octagon tower to the substruction of
the English building, where they turned towards the Rupert's-
building and enclosed the western front of the castle. In the front
of the ancient chapel of the castle a balcony with a guardhouse,
stretched along the rampart *). Owing to the erection of the an-
cient armory, the ancient rampart was pulled down from the oc-
tagon tower to the present balcony of the castle, and the armory
erected in its place; in like manner the ancient rampart of the
western front, together with the rampart which serves for a sub-
struction to the English building, was superstructed in 1530. Some
traces of the ancient rampart of the castle are still to be seen at the
bottom of the vaults underneath the balcony, and in the cellar near
the large tun.
About the year 1607, Frederic IV. went beyond the ancient
rampart, erecting on its site and on that of the outwork, up the
mount, the present balcony with its large vaults. At either corner
of this balcony there are two outjuttings of the original erection;
under it there is also a large hall Avith apartments adjoining it at
the western extremity, which served for guardrooms, and at the
eastern extremity a similar one intended for the like purpose. In
*) Vid. drawing VI. a.