The building, which dates from 1615 and is named the Boersen in Danish, is known for its green copper roof and distinctive 56-metre (184-foot) spire in the shape of four intertwined dragon tails.
With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home.
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism.
To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky.
Brave souls may climb the 150 stairs winding outside the spire to its top.
Brave souls may climb the 150 stairs winding outside the spire to its top.
The gloom of the dim and dense line of trees, the thorny bushes scattered in the bare heath like floating heads of swimmers with bedraggled hair, the smell of the damp grass and the wet earth, the spire of the temple rising above the undefined mass of blackness grouped around the village huts--everything seems like notes rising from the heart of the night, mingling and losing themselves in the one sound of ceaseless rain filling the sky.
It has an immensely high tower and spire; how it is reflected in the clear water!
Holstein castle will still be glittering its golden spire, but the castle will look as if it moved 1 mile to the inland.
