History of mediæval art . f Bursfelde, Wunsdorf, Gandersheim, and Klus,referable to the beginning of the twelfth century, and influencedby the example of Hildesheim. It may consequently be assumedthat this dactylic rhythm of the arcade supports was peculiar to GERMANY. 273 the diocese of Hildesheim, in the same way as the trochaic alter-nation of columns and piers was to the Hartz. Otherwise, throughout Saxony, the constructions were generallyof piers alone. The churches of Walbeck, Marienthal, Vessera, andthe Cathedral of Bremen {Fig. 154), all dating to the eleventh cen-tury, as well as the
History of mediæval art . f Bursfelde, Wunsdorf, Gandersheim, and Klus,referable to the beginning of the twelfth century, and influencedby the example of Hildesheim. It may consequently be assumedthat this dactylic rhythm of the arcade supports was peculiar to GERMANY. 273 the diocese of Hildesheim, in the same way as the trochaic alter-nation of columns and piers was to the Hartz. Otherwise, throughout Saxony, the constructions were generallyof piers alone. The churches of Walbeck, Marienthal, Vessera, andthe Cathedral of Bremen {Fig. 154), all dating to the eleventh cen-tury, as well as the Convent Church of Ammensleben and the Churchof Our Lady at Halberstadt, built at the beginning of the twelfthcentury, have clerestory walls supported upon simple arcades ofpiers, the bases of which are sometimes Attic, while the impostcornices are of exceedingly primitive forms. The somewhat moreelaborate capitals of the piers at Koenigslutter are extreme rudeness and bareness of design was entirely over-. Fig. 154.—Plan of the Cathedral of Bremen. come in the twelfth century. In the Church of Our Lady in Mag-deburg, which was even previous to this age, the piers were cham-fered, and the same peculiarity, in some instances with the intro-duction of small engaged columns at the corners, appears in thechurches of Fredelsloh near Eimbeck, Petersberg near Erfurt, Ma-rienberg near Helmstaedt, and Wechselburg and Thalbuergel nearJena. The last of these {Fig. 147) was by far the most highly de-veloped and successful. In addition to the four columns engagedto the corners and not projecting beyond the line of the commonimpost, two further shafts were adjoined to the narrow sides ofeach pier, these being continued around the soffit of the arch aslarge mouldings, in the same way as were the shafts of the system satisfied alike the aesthetic and the practical require- 18 274 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. ments, and prepared the way for the introduction of a vaulted
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