. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. tower only, whileall the rest is in another of a later date. This style of architecture was predominant in the mother-country, when the German emigrants came hither, andin it, therefore, their earliest edifices were built. Allthe artists skill seems here to have been devoted tothe fagade,* the effect of which is most harmonious. Ithas little decoration, but its beauty consists in its sim-plicity and admirable proportions, being very like that * It was built between 1175 and 1223. See an account of this
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. tower only, whileall the rest is in another of a later date. This style of architecture was predominant in the mother-country, when the German emigrants came hither, andin it, therefore, their earliest edifices were built. Allthe artists skill seems here to have been devoted tothe fagade,* the effect of which is most harmonious. Ithas little decoration, but its beauty consists in its sim-plicity and admirable proportions, being very like that * It was built between 1175 and 1223. See an account of this churchby L. Reissenberger, Keeper of the Imperial Collections at Hermannstadt. 62 TRANSYLVANIA. of Santa Maria Toscanella, belonging to the thirteenthcentury. The crypt, which in most churches built in this stylewas beneath the choir, is wanting here ; but, in the presentinstance, its absence may be accounted for by the rockynature of the foundation. It has been remarked, however,that in all the Romanesque churches of Transylvania ofthis period, no traces of such crypt are to be POETAL OF CnUECH AT From here the landscape is most lovely. Heltau is aSaxon settlement. The inhabitants weave the thick whitefrieze (Heltauer Tuch), worn by the WaUack population,and export it in large quantities to Dalmatia, the Banat. Formerly, the quantity annually exportedamounted in value to 3,000,000 florins. The placecelebrated also for its sickles. In every house are looms,and the courtyard and garden show various stages of thestaple manufacture. The jurisdiction of the town over its neighbouringdependent villages was jealously maintained, and on no HERMANNSTADT. 63 account was hamlet or market-town allowed to arrogateany outward symbol of authority not strictly its , no village church tower was permitted to have fourturrets at its corners,—this being a sign of civic authority,and belonging exclusively to towns and market-townswith an independent j
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