A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . h it is simple grisaille andof one uniform treatment and colour schemethroughout, is so magnificent in eftect as tohave impressed us more than any glass wehave ever seen. Altenberg is a difficult place to get at, asthere is no direct communication except by tak-ing a carriage from Cologne, but no one shouldomit seeing it. The new west front of Cologne cathedral is205 GERMANY somewhat ]i])ointiiig, but jinjbably the mod-ern architect found himself bound to adhere tothe old design, and no doubt he was ri
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . h it is simple grisaille andof one uniform treatment and colour schemethroughout, is so magnificent in eftect as tohave impressed us more than any glass wehave ever seen. Altenberg is a difficult place to get at, asthere is no direct communication except by tak-ing a carriage from Cologne, but no one shouldomit seeing it. The new west front of Cologne cathedral is205 GERMANY somewhat ]i])ointiiig, but jinjbably the mod-ern architect found himself bound to adhere tothe old design, and no doubt he was riglit indoing so, for although it is certain that themediicval architects would have modified it asit was being eanicd out, yet the new ficehe, overthe crossing, is a warning to nineteenth centuiyarchitects not to meddle with ancient to ancient plans the church was tohave had an open stone lantern in the centre,instead of the ugly cast-iron i)innacl(! which sogreatly disfigures it. Who, by the way, made the design for thewest front, which now hangs uj) in the cathe-. Germany, Part I. (the Rhineland) : MinsterAT Freiburg, Baden ; Doorway of the S.\c- KISTY. dral? It was discovered in three ]iarts, and itis said that Zwinier found one portion beneatha beehive in a village. The name of thedraftsman is, however, unknown. Perhaps itmay have been Johann \on Kiiln, whom theS])aniards call Juan di C(jlonia, and whodesigned the western spires of Burgos cathedralfor Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena between1435-1456. There is certainly much resem-blance between the Burgos and Cologne cathedral is rich in ancient glass;the fifteen clearstory windows of the choir are1 Streets Spain, p. GERMANY superb fourteenth century examples, and thatover the shrine of the three kings in the extremeeastern chapel of the apse is peculiarly inter-esting, because it is Romanesque in design andbelonged to the earlier catliedral. The fivewindows in the north aisle of the nave
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