Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine (1905) (14593538120)

Identifier: cathedralschurch01mans (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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.Andrew and St. Martin at Cologne, and St.Quirinus at Neuss. The churches of the Rhine valley areabundantly supplied with steeples, often ingroups far in excess of symmetry or sense,as for instance the outre group at Mayence,which is really quite indescribable. The Apostles Church at Cologne, thecathedrals at Mayence, Speyer, and Worms,and the abbey church of Laach all havewonderfully broken sky-lines; w^hile thosewith great central towers, such as at Neuss,or the parish church of Sinzig, form anotherclass; and the slim-spired churches at An-dernach and Coblenz yet another. St. Mar-tins at Cologne is another single-spiredchurch, but it rises from its three apses inquite a different manner from that of St.Quirinus at Neuss, and must be consideredin a class by itself. The minster at Bonn, though having threesteeples, is not overspired, like that of Ma-yence, — indeed, it is perhaps one of the mostpicturesque, if somewhat theatrical, of allthe spired churches of the Rhine, excepting 60
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I Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine always Limburg. The openwork spire ofFreiburg is unequalled in grace by even thatof Strasburg, whatever may be the actualvalue of its constructive details. A marked type of German church archi-tecture is that species of building known asthe Hallenkirch. The variety is found else-where, even in France, but still it is dis-tinctively German in its inception. Usually they are of the triple-naved va-riety, i. e., a nave with its flanking aisles,with the aisles nearly always of the sameheight as the principal nave. There are two great churches of this order— though lacking aisles — in France, thecathedrals at Rodez and Albi in the south. Mostly these great hailed churches existin Westphalia, where there is a fine examplein the cathedral at Paderborn, and againthere is St. Ludger at Miinster, and manyothers. In one form or another the type isfrequently met with throughout Germany^and is therefore to be considered as a dis-tinct German architectural