Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . f placed thefirst stone in the easterly portion of the pres-ent church, a fact which was only discoveredin the seventeenth century, when the founda-tions were being repaired. It is supposedoriginally to have been a part of the palaceof the Empress Helene, afterward convertedinto a house of God. One notes in the interior a remarkablybeautiful series of Corinthian columns withelaborately carved capitals of the eleventhcentury. In later years these have beenflanked by supporting pillars which detractexceedingly from the beauty of the earlierforms. In parts t
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . f placed thefirst stone in the easterly portion of the pres-ent church, a fact which was only discoveredin the seventeenth century, when the founda-tions were being repaired. It is supposedoriginally to have been a part of the palaceof the Empress Helene, afterward convertedinto a house of God. One notes in the interior a remarkablybeautiful series of Corinthian columns withelaborately carved capitals of the eleventhcentury. In later years these have beenflanked by supporting pillars which detractexceedingly from the beauty of the earlierforms. In parts the edifice is frankly FrenchGothic, Byzantine, and what we know else-where as Norman, — a species of the Roman-esque. In 1717 the church suffered considerablyby fire, but it was repaired forthwith, andto-day gives the effect of a fairly well caredfor building of three naves and a doublechoir. There are sixteen altars, some of which are215 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine modern, and two organs, cased as usual inhideous PULPIT TREVES The high altar and the pulpit are excel-lently sculptured, and there are some notablemonuments to former archbishops and elect-ors. 216 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Beneath the church are vast subterraneanpassages, and a great vault where repose theancient regents of the province. Architecturally, Trevess other remarkablechurch (Notre Dame) quite rivals the cathe-dral itself in interest. It is one of the bestexamples of German mediaeval architectureextant. In the year 1227 when St. Gereons at Co-logne, one of the earliest examples of ogivalvaulting in Germany, was just finished, therewas commenced the church of Notre Dameat Treves. It was the first church edifice inGermany to consistently carry out the Gothicmotive from the foundation stones upward. For fifty years the well-defined Gothic hadbeen knocking at the gateway which led fromFrance into Germany, and at last it was toenter at a period when the cathedrals at Sois-sons
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