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Chap. V.

DOMESTTC AECHITECTURE.

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CHAPTER Y.

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.

CONTENTS.

Palaces of Wartburg— Gelnhausen— Houses —Windows.

As might be expectecl, the remains of domestic architecture are few
and insignificant as compared with those of the great monumenta]
churches, which in that age were the buildings par excellence on which
the wealth, the talent, and the energy of the nation were so profusely
lavished. Nothing now remains of the palaces which Charlemagne
built at Ingelheim or at Aix-la-Chapelle, nor of the residences of
many of his successors, till we come to the period of the Idohenstau-
fens. Of their palaces at Gelnhausen and the Wartburg enough re-
mains to tell us at least in what style and with what degree of taste
they were erected, and the remains of the contemporary castle of
Muenzenberg complete, as far as we can ever now expect it to be
completed, our knowledge of the subject.

464.

Arcade of the Palace at Gelnhausen. From Moller.