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POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY.
Book Y.
recent researclies have proved tliat wliat he did was to rehnild or re-
store the old donhle apse cathedral of the 9th centnry. Bnt the
examples just quoted, if
no other proof were
available, are snfficient
to show that the Gothic
style was hardly then
introduced into Ger-
many, and hut very
little nnderstood when
practised. It seems
that the present huild-
ing was hegun ahout
the year 1270-1275,
and the choir com-
pleted in all essentials
as we now find it hy
the year 1322.1 Had
the nave heen com-
pleted at the same rate
of progress, it would
have shown a wide de-
viation of style, and the
western front, instead
of heing erected ac-
cording to the heautiful
design preserved to us,
would have heen cover-
ed with stump tracery,
and other vagaries of
tlie late German school,
all of which are even
now ohservahle in the
part of the north-west
tower actually erected.
As it is now heing
completed according to the original design, one of its principal
heauties will he the uniformity of style that will reign throughout.
In dimensions it is the largest cathedral of northern Europe, its ex-
treme length heing 445, its extreme hreadth 250, and its superficies
81,464 ft., whichis 10,000 ft. more than are covered by Amiens, and
at least 15,000 more than Amiens was originally designed to cover.
On comparing the eastern halves of these two from the centre of the
intersection of the transept, it will he found that Cologne is an exact
copy 0f the French cathedral, not, only in general arrangement, hut
also in dimensions, the only difference heing a few fcet of extra length
PUan of Cathedral at Cologne. From Boisseree.
Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
1 he best resume of the arguments on this and M. Boisseree, in Didron’s Annnles ArclK'-
question will be found in the controversy car- ologiques, vol. vii. et seq.
ried on by 1(. de Verneilh, the Baron de Rosier,
POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY.
Book Y.
recent researclies have proved tliat wliat he did was to rehnild or re-
store the old donhle apse cathedral of the 9th centnry. Bnt the
examples just quoted, if
no other proof were
available, are snfficient
to show that the Gothic
style was hardly then
introduced into Ger-
many, and hut very
little nnderstood when
practised. It seems
that the present huild-
ing was hegun ahout
the year 1270-1275,
and the choir com-
pleted in all essentials
as we now find it hy
the year 1322.1 Had
the nave heen com-
pleted at the same rate
of progress, it would
have shown a wide de-
viation of style, and the
western front, instead
of heing erected ac-
cording to the heautiful
design preserved to us,
would have heen cover-
ed with stump tracery,
and other vagaries of
tlie late German school,
all of which are even
now ohservahle in the
part of the north-west
tower actually erected.
As it is now heing
completed according to the original design, one of its principal
heauties will he the uniformity of style that will reign throughout.
In dimensions it is the largest cathedral of northern Europe, its ex-
treme length heing 445, its extreme hreadth 250, and its superficies
81,464 ft., whichis 10,000 ft. more than are covered by Amiens, and
at least 15,000 more than Amiens was originally designed to cover.
On comparing the eastern halves of these two from the centre of the
intersection of the transept, it will he found that Cologne is an exact
copy 0f the French cathedral, not, only in general arrangement, hut
also in dimensions, the only difference heing a few fcet of extra length
PUan of Cathedral at Cologne. From Boisseree.
Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
1 he best resume of the arguments on this and M. Boisseree, in Didron’s Annnles ArclK'-
question will be found in the controversy car- ologiques, vol. vii. et seq.
ried on by 1(. de Verneilh, the Baron de Rosier,