A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Germany, Part I. (the ) : CapitalsFROM Work of the E.\rly II-th Century;Church at Neuweiler, Elsass. the great rock, it overlooks for many miles thevalley of the Naab and its junction with theDanube. There is a primitive class of structure, ofwhich the rock-cut church of S. Salvator atSwiibiseh-Gmiind, in Wiirtemberg, is a veryinteresting example. Here we see a precipi-tous rock pierced with deep-set windows atirregular intervals, and if we enter this curiousstructure, we find ourselves in a rock
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Germany, Part I. (the ) : CapitalsFROM Work of the E.\rly II-th Century;Church at Neuweiler, Elsass. the great rock, it overlooks for many miles thevalley of the Naab and its junction with theDanube. There is a primitive class of structure, ofwhich the rock-cut church of S. Salvator atSwiibiseh-Gmiind, in Wiirtemberg, is a veryinteresting example. Here we see a precipi-tous rock pierced with deep-set windows atirregular intervals, and if we enter this curiousstructure, we find ourselves in a rock cut cham-ber, its rudely arched ceiling supported uponpiers, devoid of architectural arrangement, and194 GERMANY almost (lark but fur the lamps glimmering be-fore the altars. Over this is another church,or chapel, also cut out of the rock, which hasbeen altered during the titteenth century ; it isimpossible to ascertain the date of the lowerchurch, but tradition ascribes it to a periodprevious to the Christian era. There was a somewhat similar rock-cut cryptbeneath the ancient churc
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