. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ows being as they are, wholly without the taste-ful forms elsewhere given them. It not unfrequently occurred that the builders took thestone-work, with the ready-made ornaments, of Roman * See the illustration to Chapter XXI. t Friedrich Muller, Die Vertheidigungs-Kirchen in Siebenbiirgen. 192 TRANSYLVANIA. remains for their Christian edifices. And this adoptionof the skill and taste of another age and people in theirbuildings was, as Professor Frederick Miiller with grsagacity remarks, one reason why
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ows being as they are, wholly without the taste-ful forms elsewhere given them. It not unfrequently occurred that the builders took thestone-work, with the ready-made ornaments, of Roman * See the illustration to Chapter XXI. t Friedrich Muller, Die Vertheidigungs-Kirchen in Siebenbiirgen. 192 TRANSYLVANIA. remains for their Christian edifices. And this adoptionof the skill and taste of another age and people in theirbuildings was, as Professor Frederick Miiller with grsagacity remarks, one reason why the style of archi-tecture prevailing in the land was slow to give way toinfluences from without. Where the employment ofantique fragments extended beyond the adoption of merestone blocks, and especially where ornamental remains,such as columns and parts of arche- adopted, the kindred form of the latter made the acceptance and longerretaining of the Romanesque style a necessity. The antiqueround arch and the Roman column could not well be in-troduced as parts of German architectural work. CHURCH AT KAISD. It is characteristic of all these churches that the archesare low; the pillars not light, but massive. All thedetails, too, are as simple as possible. It very oftenhappens that on the side most exposed there are nowindows; and thus a broad expanse of bare unbrokenwall is a feature frequently met with. The ecclesi MEDIASCH. 193 character of the edifice is sacrificed to its purpose of de-fence; yet, notwithstanding, the fundamental form pre-valent in the country—that, namely, of the nave termi-nating in a three-sided choir, of nearly the same breadthas the main building—is invariably retained. The realization of what has been said above is distinctlyseen in this outline of a church at Kaisd. It has, more-over, a distinctive mark of a citadel church/—massivebuttresses against a wall four feet in thickness. Suchbuttresses are nearly always joined together at top byarches, an
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