History of mediæval art . e was chief-ly influenced by Saxony, as is provedby the enormous columned Basilicaof Hersfeld, begun in 1038 {Fig. 158),and by the basilicas of Breitenaunear Cassel, and of Ilbenstadt, inboth of which the clerestory wallsare supported upon piers. In Fran-conia, on the other hand, the eccle-siastical buildings, in so far as theyare to be judged from their presentcondition, display Rhenish was the case in Bamberg with the Church of St. James, completed in 1073 ; with the Cathedral,originally built, between 1081 and mi, as a horizontally ceiledbasilica, w
History of mediæval art . e was chief-ly influenced by Saxony, as is provedby the enormous columned Basilicaof Hersfeld, begun in 1038 {Fig. 158),and by the basilicas of Breitenaunear Cassel, and of Ilbenstadt, inboth of which the clerestory wallsare supported upon piers. In Fran-conia, on the other hand, the eccle-siastical buildings, in so far as theyare to be judged from their presentcondition, display Rhenish was the case in Bamberg with the Church of St. James, completed in 1073 ; with the Cathedral,originally built, between 1081 and mi, as a horizontally ceiledbasilica, with columns engaged to the corners of the piers; and withthe Basilica of St. Michael; also in Wurzburg with the Cathedral;which was built at two different periods, between 1042 and 1050,and between 1133 and 1189. Engaged columns were attached tothe narrow sides of the piers of this last building, which retainedits ceiling of wood until a comparatively late date. The circumstances of Southern Germany rendered it impossible. Fig. 157.—Western Front of the Cathe-dral of Paderborn. 278 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. for the architecture of this country to keep step with that of advantages derived from the ancient Roman civilization by theprovinces bordering the Danube had been entirely lost throughthe migrations of Germanic races during the fourth century, andthe inroads of the Hungarians in the tenth. In the second halfof the eleventh century the churches of the diocese of Passau, un-der Bishop Altmann, were entirely of wood, and with the exceptionof Ratisbon and the shores of the Lake of Constance, which wereinfluenced by St. Gall, there were few important works of the earlyRomanic period in this part of Germany. The most noteworthyamong these are in Ratisbon itself. The Upper Minster and theChurch of St. Emmeramnus, both of which were originally exten-
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