A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . GERMAN^. PART TI.: TIMBER HOUSE IN MARKET PLACE, HILDESHEIjM, HANO^^;R. 221 2?2 GERMANY There arc deep tniusepts and a large choir withaisles and clearstory. Internally there is a tinerood screen. Still tbllowing the Luhn, we conie to Marburgwith its justly celebrated chnrch ; it is a hugeHallenhau of early Gothic, erected between theyears , greatly resembling the Lieh-frauen Kirche at windows are in twotiers, a somewhat uncom-mon treatment in a Hal-lenhau, and the traceiy isall uncuspe
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . GERMAN^. PART TI.: TIMBER HOUSE IN MARKET PLACE, HILDESHEIjM, HANO^^;R. 221 2?2 GERMANY There arc deep tniusepts and a large choir withaisles and clearstory. Internally there is a tinerood screen. Still tbllowing the Luhn, we conie to Marburgwith its justly celebrated chnrch ; it is a hugeHallenhau of early Gothic, erected between theyears , greatly resembling the Lieh-frauen Kirche at windows are in twotiers, a somewhat uncom-mon treatment in a Hal-lenhau, and the traceiy isall uncusped. It is iidl ofmagnificent furniture, al-tars, screens, and stainedglass. There is a very im-portant castle here, chieflyKoraanesqne, with a vaultedhall supported by slendercolumns, and a curiouschapel. There is also apicturesque sixteenth cen-. Gerjiaxy, Part II.: Rathh-\us at , Saxony tury Rathlinus and some excellent examj)les ofhalf-tindjered domestic architecture in the architecture of Hanover is of some im-portance, though the capital itself does not pos-sess any remarkable examples of mediieval work;its modern buildings, however, are instructiveas exhibiting in a very distinct manner the rest-lessness of architectural thought in Germany2-:3 GERMANY during the present century. A veiy fine theatreerected some half a century back is in the severeItalian Renaissance style, Init most of the othermodern buildings in the town are in the GermanEclectic style, which we shall consider more fullywhen we describe JMunich. A remarkable re-action, however, seems to have set in, if we mayjudge from the new Catholic cathedral erectedin memory of Von Windhorst, the last primeminister of Hanover. This building is a scrupu-lous revival of a fourteenth century church, andis one of the most successful and elaboratelyear
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