Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . or remark, save twelvecolumns, each cut from a solid block of sand-stone. They measure perhaps twenty feet inheight, and are three feet or more in cir-cumference. There is no resemblance between the ar-chitecture of this church and others in theRhine valley; therefore it cannot be consid-ered as typical of any Rhenish manner ofbuilding. St. Johns is an ogival edifice also withoutany great merit, unless it be that of a gran-deur which is contrastingly out of place inits cramped surroundings. Below Schafifhausen is Sackingen, the thirdforest city of the Rhi
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . or remark, save twelvecolumns, each cut from a solid block of sand-stone. They measure perhaps twenty feet inheight, and are three feet or more in cir-cumference. There is no resemblance between the ar-chitecture of this church and others in theRhine valley; therefore it cannot be consid-ered as typical of any Rhenish manner ofbuilding. St. Johns is an ogival edifice also withoutany great merit, unless it be that of a gran-deur which is contrastingly out of place inits cramped surroundings. Below Schafifhausen is Sackingen, the thirdforest city of the Rhine. It owes its origin 81 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine to a convent of St. Hilaire, founded in thesixth century by St. Fridolin. The Lives of the Saints recounts howSt. Columba and his disciples left Irelandand came to Constance, where they separatedand went their various ways to evangelizethe Rhine valley. To St. Fridolin fell thatpart lying between Basel and bones are yet venerated in the churchof St. 82 VII BASEL AND COLMARBasel After traversing several of the Swiss can-tons, the Rhine leaves Switzerland at the breaking up of the vast empire ofCharlemagne, Basel came first under theauthority of the Emperors of Germany, andthen under that of the kings of the secondhouse of Burgundy, until 1032, at which timethe city became definitely incorporated intothe German Empire. Rudolph of Hapsburg besieged the cityin 1274, and through the fourteenth and wellinto the fifteenth century it was the theatreof many struggles between the bishops andthe emperors. In 1061 and 1431 important councils ofthe Church were held here. In 1489, at the village of Dornach, scarcehalf a dozen miles from Basel, took placethat battle between six thousand Swiss and 83 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine fifteen thousand Austrians which made pos-sible the future independence of Switzerland. During the sixteenth century Basel en-joyed a glorious era with respect t
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