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Encyclopedia Britannica



KONIGSWINTER

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 896 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KONIGSWINTER , a town and summer resort of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the right bank of the Rhine, 24 M. S.S.E. of Cologne by the railway to
Frankfort
 -on-Main, at the foot of the Siebengebirge. Pop. (1905), 3944 The romantic Drachenfels (Ioio ft.), crowned by the ruins of a castle built early in the 12th
century
  by the archbishop of Cologne, rises behind the town. From the summit, to which there is a funicular railway, there is a magnificent view, celebrated by Byron in Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage
 . A cave in the hill is said to have sheltered the
dragon
  which was slain by the hero Siegfried. The
mountain
  is quarried, and from 1267 onward supplied stone (trachyte) for the building of Cologne
cathedral
 . The castle of Drachenburg, built in 1883, is on the north side of the hill. Konigswinter has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical
church
 , some small manufactures and a little shipping. It has a
monument
  to the poet, Wolfgang Muller. Near the town are the rains of the abbey of Heisterbach.


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