DOI Heft:
No. 162 (September, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Elliot, Arthur: Some inn signs at Lucerne
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0319
Inn Signs at Lucerne
The lake front, lined with its fine hotels,
good shops, restaurants, etc., always has a gay
appearance, and at night the shops are most
brilliantly lit until quite late in the evening,
the shopkeepers hoping to attract customers
from among the gay throng who, after the
table d’hote hour, are passing from their hotels
to the Kursaal or to the Stadthof concert,
or to some other evening amusement, having
probably spent the day on some lovely excur-
sion in the neighbourhood. Among the lions
of Lucerne that every visitor makes a point
of seeing are the two old covered wooden
bridges over the Reusse; and, in walking from
one to the other, the
visitor probably
passes through many
streets in the old
town. Now this old
town is kept in such
“ spick and span ”
order and is so clean
that it has lost much
of its original charac-
ter, and does not at
first sight seem so
interesting as it really
is, therefore many
visitors give it rather
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scant attention. The writer of the present article
jotted down many things that seemed to him
worthy of attention; first, there are the frescoes
with which so many of the houses are decorated,
most of them modern, but capitally designed and
full of right feeling and spirit, showing that the
men of Lucerne of to-day can produce work quite
equal to that done by their ancestors; and if this
may be said of the frescoes, it certainly applies with
equal force to the workers in iron, for the city is
FIG. 4. SIGN OF THE “ h6tEL DU CERF,” LUCERNE
full of the most beautiful examples of wrought-iron,
signs, balconies, grilles, etc., but it is only with the
inn signs that this article deals.
We will take a walk through the town, noting
some of them as we pass. Starting from the cathe-
dral—in which, on the inside of the great west
doors, is some fine wrought-iron work, although no
sketches of this are given here—to get at the old
town, we pass up Grendel Strasse to the Falken
Platz ; then, turning to our'left up Weggis Gasse,
we come to an old inn, The Three Kings, a name
very often met with. This sign (Fig. 1) is older than
many here given, and is very quaint. A little
farther on we turn up the Eisen Gasse, a side street
FIG. 3. SIGN OF STEINBOCK
RESTAURANT, LUCERNE
The lake front, lined with its fine hotels,
good shops, restaurants, etc., always has a gay
appearance, and at night the shops are most
brilliantly lit until quite late in the evening,
the shopkeepers hoping to attract customers
from among the gay throng who, after the
table d’hote hour, are passing from their hotels
to the Kursaal or to the Stadthof concert,
or to some other evening amusement, having
probably spent the day on some lovely excur-
sion in the neighbourhood. Among the lions
of Lucerne that every visitor makes a point
of seeing are the two old covered wooden
bridges over the Reusse; and, in walking from
one to the other, the
visitor probably
passes through many
streets in the old
town. Now this old
town is kept in such
“ spick and span ”
order and is so clean
that it has lost much
of its original charac-
ter, and does not at
first sight seem so
interesting as it really
is, therefore many
visitors give it rather
208
scant attention. The writer of the present article
jotted down many things that seemed to him
worthy of attention; first, there are the frescoes
with which so many of the houses are decorated,
most of them modern, but capitally designed and
full of right feeling and spirit, showing that the
men of Lucerne of to-day can produce work quite
equal to that done by their ancestors; and if this
may be said of the frescoes, it certainly applies with
equal force to the workers in iron, for the city is
FIG. 4. SIGN OF THE “ h6tEL DU CERF,” LUCERNE
full of the most beautiful examples of wrought-iron,
signs, balconies, grilles, etc., but it is only with the
inn signs that this article deals.
We will take a walk through the town, noting
some of them as we pass. Starting from the cathe-
dral—in which, on the inside of the great west
doors, is some fine wrought-iron work, although no
sketches of this are given here—to get at the old
town, we pass up Grendel Strasse to the Falken
Platz ; then, turning to our'left up Weggis Gasse,
we come to an old inn, The Three Kings, a name
very often met with. This sign (Fig. 1) is older than
many here given, and is very quaint. A little
farther on we turn up the Eisen Gasse, a side street
FIG. 3. SIGN OF STEINBOCK
RESTAURANT, LUCERNE