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Chap. III.
COBERN.
567
tradition, I believe, is that it was built for tbe tomb-liouse of tbe bishop
to wbom it owes its erection.
One more specimen will serve to illustrate nearly all the known
forms of tbis class. It is a
little cbapel at Cobern on
tbe Moselle (woodcut No.
437), bexagonal in plan,
witb an apse, placed most
unsymmetricaliy witb refe-
rence to tbe entrance—so
at least we sbould consider
it: but tbe Germans seem
always to bave been of opi-
nion tbat a side entrance
was preferable to one oppo-
site tbe principal point of
interest. Tbe details of tbis
cbapel are remarkably ele-
gant, and its extemal form
is a very favourable speci-
men of tbe German style
just before it was super-
seded in tbe beginning of
tbe 13th century by tbe
French pointed style.
Tbere are besides tbese
a circular cbapel of uncer-
tain date at Altenfurt near
Nuremberg, and tbe inte-
resting but little known
church of St. Micbael at
Fulda, dedicated in the
year 1092, erected to re-
Chapel at Cobern on the Moselle.
No scale.
From Wiebeking.
place an older building wbose crypt still remains beneath. According
to Kugler it was a sepulchral church, erected in imitation of tbat at
Jerusalem. Tbere are also rnany otbers at Prague and in various
parts of Germany, but none remarkable eitlier for tbeir historical or
for tlieir artistic importance. This fonn went out of use before tbe
style we are describing reacbed its acme ; and it bad not tberefore a
fair chance of receiving that elaboration wbich was necessary for tbe
development of its capabilities.
COBERN.
567
tradition, I believe, is that it was built for tbe tomb-liouse of tbe bishop
to wbom it owes its erection.
One more specimen will serve to illustrate nearly all the known
forms of tbis class. It is a
little cbapel at Cobern on
tbe Moselle (woodcut No.
437), bexagonal in plan,
witb an apse, placed most
unsymmetricaliy witb refe-
rence to tbe entrance—so
at least we sbould consider
it: but tbe Germans seem
always to bave been of opi-
nion tbat a side entrance
was preferable to one oppo-
site tbe principal point of
interest. Tbe details of tbis
cbapel are remarkably ele-
gant, and its extemal form
is a very favourable speci-
men of tbe German style
just before it was super-
seded in tbe beginning of
tbe 13th century by tbe
French pointed style.
Tbere are besides tbese
a circular cbapel of uncer-
tain date at Altenfurt near
Nuremberg, and tbe inte-
resting but little known
church of St. Micbael at
Fulda, dedicated in the
year 1092, erected to re-
Chapel at Cobern on the Moselle.
No scale.
From Wiebeking.
place an older building wbose crypt still remains beneath. According
to Kugler it was a sepulchral church, erected in imitation of tbat at
Jerusalem. Tbere are also rnany otbers at Prague and in various
parts of Germany, but none remarkable eitlier for tbeir historical or
for tlieir artistic importance. This fonn went out of use before tbe
style we are describing reacbed its acme ; and it bad not tberefore a
fair chance of receiving that elaboration wbich was necessary for tbe
development of its capabilities.