English Translation

So we see how these gems are connected to Germanic history. Far east, somewhere on the Black Sea, the lance was created, far south the coat was woven and embroidered for a Viking. In the west an art shmięd made the crown and put sparkling stones in it. And together they were connected with the kingdom in upsurge and distress - a wonderful story and a history that is still going on, even if these things have a different meaning for us now, even though we no longer take them with us in battle, and even if they are no longer relics for us. But they belong to the myth of the kingdom, which for us is a myth of blood, "holy transmission, living reality, image of the future, not even for us to separate from the knowledge of origin and becoming to the farthest pasts of our race. Mythus is a great word; we do not want to abuse it, but we may associate it with the great idea of our empire! J.C. Nachenius, The Netherlands Rebellion or departure ls Emperor Charles IV. with Bohemia, the core of his country princeship, which had linked the German imperial crown, seemed to complete his new order of the empire. He no longer built Palatinates in all parts of the empire, but, under the impressions of his young years of teaching in France, he had begun to expand a capital city, Prague. From his time, buildings and art monuments were proclaiming up to our day from the size of the layout of his building program. German artisans, merchants, scholars and artists, men's families and royal townships were the determining means of this intellectual and economic order of Bohemia. Emperor's crown, empire heavy and the other sanctuaries of the empire had settled in the middle of the country at the castle Karlstein built specifically for this purpose, they should consecrate the whole construction of these countries and commit them to the 'protection of the imperial insignia. Already a look over the Gothic towers of the city and the retreat in the first university of the German Reich in Prague, built 495 years ago, give a sufficiently strong impression of this construction plan of a capital in the heart of the empire. Diehussite Rebellion And yet this middle section of the medieval German eastern front should not continue the construction of the kingdom. In the country itself, the Lussite rebellion of a number of Czech landscapes and a group of Czech knights, craftsmen and clerics blew up this plan of their country prince. A short human age after the death of the emperor had already been destroyed in a gloomy fire of Bohemia's position.