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Chap. IV.
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style has its sky-line so pleasingly hroken, while the cornices ancl eaves
still retain all the nnhroken simplicity of classic examples, showing
1
456. View of Church at Laach. Frorn Geier and Gorz.
how easily the two forms might have been comhined hy following the
path here indicated.
These are perhaps the finest and most typical bnildings in this
style, and snfficient to characterise the form of architecture in vogue in
Germany in the great Hohenstaufen period, and in the centnry imme-
diately preceding their accession to power; but they are not nearly all
the really important huildings which during the epoch of true German
greatness were erected in almost every considerable city of the empire.
In Cologne itself there is the church of St. Gereon, the naim of which,
with its crypt, helongs to the 11th century, the apse to the 12th, and
the decagonal domed part to the 13th. This is a most interesting
specimen of transition architecture, and as such will he mentioned
hereafter. So is the church of St. Cunibert, dedicated in 1248, and
hardly more advanced in style than the abhey of St. Denis near Paris,
huilt at least a century earlier. The churclies of St. George and of
Sion in the same city afford interesting examples of the styie. More
important, however, than these are the cathedral at Bonn, the nohle
church at Andernach, the ahhey church of Heisterhach, and that of
St. Guerin in Xeuss. In the same neighhourhood the little church of
Zinsig is a pleasing specimen of t.he age when the Germans liad laid
aside the hold simplicity of their earlier forms to adopt the more ele-
LAACH—ZINSIGr.
581
style has its sky-line so pleasingly hroken, while the cornices ancl eaves
still retain all the nnhroken simplicity of classic examples, showing
1
456. View of Church at Laach. Frorn Geier and Gorz.
how easily the two forms might have been comhined hy following the
path here indicated.
These are perhaps the finest and most typical bnildings in this
style, and snfficient to characterise the form of architecture in vogue in
Germany in the great Hohenstaufen period, and in the centnry imme-
diately preceding their accession to power; but they are not nearly all
the really important huildings which during the epoch of true German
greatness were erected in almost every considerable city of the empire.
In Cologne itself there is the church of St. Gereon, the naim of which,
with its crypt, helongs to the 11th century, the apse to the 12th, and
the decagonal domed part to the 13th. This is a most interesting
specimen of transition architecture, and as such will he mentioned
hereafter. So is the church of St. Cunibert, dedicated in 1248, and
hardly more advanced in style than the abhey of St. Denis near Paris,
huilt at least a century earlier. The churclies of St. George and of
Sion in the same city afford interesting examples of the styie. More
important, however, than these are the cathedral at Bonn, the nohle
church at Andernach, the ahhey church of Heisterhach, and that of
St. Guerin in Xeuss. In the same neighhourhood the little church of
Zinsig is a pleasing specimen of t.he age when the Germans liad laid
aside the hold simplicity of their earlier forms to adopt the more ele-