THE CASTLE OF GODESBERG.

THE beautiful ruin of Godesberg stands on a richly woodedheight, about six miles to the southward of Bonn. It marksthe boundary of the more mountainous scenery of the Rhine,and directly fronts the Siebenbergen, a cluster of seven hills,below which the banks of the river are comparatively level.The castle of Godesberg was built by Theodoric Archbishopof Cologne, in the year 1210, and was destroyed by the troopsof Bavaria in a contest with those of Gebhard, Archbishop ofCologne, in the year 1595. It stands on the site of a Romancastle, by some, supposed to have been built by the EmperorJulian the Apostate.