Identifier: austriahungarywi00baed (find matches)
Title: Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York C. Scribner
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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. portal, the Last Judgment). Interior. The late-Gothic high-altar, with four wings, is adornedwith 48 paintings on a gold ground (1477) of scenes from the life ofSt. Elizabeth. On the left wall of the choir is a magnificent tabernacleof the richest open-work, 66 ft. high, executed in 1472. The 15th cent,frescoes on the N\ and S.E. walls and the chapels of SS. Stephen andJohn should also be noticed. — In the vaults (key kept by the vergerin the sacristy) are the remains of Prince Francis II. Bakoczi (d. 1735),brought hither in 1906. 478 Route 80. KASSA. The square Urban Totver (PL 3; B, 2), on the N. side of thecathedral, dates from 1628 and was restored in 1909. To the S.is the chapel of St. Michael (PL 2; B, 3), built in 1260. — TheFo-Utcza leads K from the cathedral, passing the Theatre, tothe (10 min.) Ferencz-J6zsef-Ter, in which, on our left, stands theRdkoezi Museum (PL A, 1; open free on Sun., Tues., Wed., &Sat. 9-12 and in summer also 3-5; at other times 40/V). On the
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groundfioor are the library (r.j and the Puky Collection of ArtIndustry and Ethnography (L); on the first floor are prehistoricantiquities, Kassa pottery (1805-40; Case 25, Rows 2 & 3), em-broidery (14-19th cent.), weapons, coins and medals, furniture,altars, etchings, engravings, and paintings. — Mt. Calvary (x/4 hr.to the W. of the Ferencz-Jozsef-Ter) commands a good view. The Environs of Kassa arc rich iu mineral) springs. Among thehills, 3 M. to the N.W., are the baths Oi Banko (carr. 3 K: or a plea-sant walk through the Csermelij Valley). — About 2 M. to the N.E. arethe small sulphur-baths of Lajosforras, Ger. Ludwigsquelle (cab 2 A,omnibus 30 7?). — About 12Va M. to the N.E. !(carr. in 3 hrs., 10-12 A) EPERJES. 80. Boute. 479 lies Eank-Eerlein (1285 ft.; Lodging Houses), with an intermittentchalybeate spring. From Kassa to Torna, 25V2_M., railway in l3/4-23/4hrs. — 3 M. Bdrcza(p. 477). — From (20 M.) Szepsi a branch-line diverges to (10 M.; in ca.3/4 hr.) Meczenz&a

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