History of mediæval art . Fig. 178. -Northern Side of the Niederburg atRuedesheim. * L. Winter, Die Burg Dankwarderode zu Braunschweig. Braunschweig, 1883. 3°4 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. the Moselle, Vianden in Luxemburg. In Eastern Germany, on theother hand, there are no distinctively Romanic remains of castles,and the same is the case with the south, where only Schloss Tirol,near Meran, is to be mentioned. The imperial palaces of the Hohenstaufens were of very consid-erable dimensions, chief among them being the castle of Eger andthat of Goslar. The first of these, which came into the possessiono
History of mediæval art . Fig. 178. -Northern Side of the Niederburg atRuedesheim. * L. Winter, Die Burg Dankwarderode zu Braunschweig. Braunschweig, 1883. 3°4 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. the Moselle, Vianden in Luxemburg. In Eastern Germany, on theother hand, there are no distinctively Romanic remains of castles,and the same is the case with the south, where only Schloss Tirol,near Meran, is to be mentioned. The imperial palaces of the Hohenstaufens were of very consid-erable dimensions, chief among them being the castle of Eger andthat of Goslar. The first of these, which came into the possessionof Frederick Barbarossa as the dowry of his first wife Adelheid, andwas provided by the Emperor himself with a fine double chapel, stilldisplays the simple forms of the first half of the twelfth halls occupy the entire width of the building, being withoutcentral supports and without a corridor. They are indicated upon. Fig. 179.—Restored Section and View of the Eastern Fajade of the Palace of Dankwarde- rode in Brunswick. the exterior by groups of arched windows, while smaller aper-tures give light to the adjoining chamber. The Imperial Palace atGoslar, originally founded by Henry III., and consequently the old-est of all those which have remained to the present day, is superiorto the Castle of Eger both in dimensions and in artistic enormous hall which occupies the entire upper story is 55 and 16 m. wide; it is opened to the court in arcades, the piersof which, connected by arches, combine three smaller arcades sup-ported upon columns, to a single system. This magnificent hall,which has never been without the protection of a roof, has unfort-unately suffered so much from restorations that its original appear-ance is no longer evident. A greater interest is hence attached to the Imperial Palace of GERMANY. 305 Wimpfen am Berge, and especially to that of Gelnhausen, althoughbo
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