The Rabbi of Bacharach
“On the lower reaches of the Rhine, where the banks of the great river start to lose their smiling countenance, where hills and cliffs with their audacious ruined castles rise Read More …
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The Sorceress of Bacharach
Around 1800 the German Romantic author Clemens von Brentano (1778-1842) wrote his ballad “Lore Lay”, which begins: Zu Bacharach am Rheine Wohnt’ eine Zauberin Sie war so schön und feine Read More …
Victor Hugo in Bacharach
In 1840 the great French novelist Victor Hugo, author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and later Les Misérables, spent three days in Bacharach and wrote an enthusiastic description in his book Read More …