ove them is placed Jesus-Christ holding in his hands a
cross and banner. In the lateral towers, the same tier is taken
up on each side by a high broad window in the shape of an ogee,
before which rise very slender pillars. Exactly over these
windows, on the third tier and also on each side, are three very
high and narrow windows; the middle part, though wider, has but
two, rather small ones, and surrounded by some statues. This very
massive portion of the building betrays at first sight its later
origin; when Erwin's plan was abandoned, this part was added to
fill up the empty space between the two towers; these were
already completed, and even have on the third tier their windows
looking into the central porch, but which are at present hidden
from the outside. That part of the middle porch is used as a
belfry, four large bells are suspended in it, the largest of
which, cast in 1427, weighs nine thousand kilogrammes, and serves
to announce great festival days; it is also rung at the death of
renowned personages, or in case of fire.

It was only in the year 1849 that the front was ornamented with
statues representing the day of judgment. This group, consisting
of fifteen gigantic figures, was made after the old drawings
preserved in the archives of the _[OE]uvre-Notre-Dame_.
Jesus-Christ, as judge, is in the middle, with Mary and John the
Baptist on either side; they are surrounded by angels sounding
the trumpet of dooms-day, or bearing the instruments of our
Saviour's passion; beneath are seen the Evangelists, having men's
bodies surmounted by the heads of the four symbols which
generally accompany them.

Above the middle porch and the southward tower, is the platform,
very spacious and surrounded by a handsome balustrade; on it is
built a small house for the guardians charged to strike the hours
and ring the alarm bell in case of fire. From the top of this
platform one enjoys a magnificent view; the wonderful panorama
that unfolds itself from there, has been drawn with as much taste
as accuracy by Mr. Frederic Piton, a zealous _amateur_ of our
local history. Towards the North, in the direction of the Wacken,
an island near Strasburg, is seen on the horizon the mountain of
the _Pigeonnier_ (_Scherhol_ in German), at the foot of which
lies Wissemburg; to its right rise the peaks crowned by the ruins
of _Gutenberg_ and _Trifels_, and the famous _Geisberg_ taken by
storm in the war of 1870. On the other side of the Rhi