History of mediæval art . on, 1150 to 1170,recent investigations* havethrown much light, v/as ofextreme simplicity. Itsposition was strengthenedby the vicinity of the riverOcker. The ground-floor,lighted by small windows,was divided longitudinallyby a range of piers con-nected with arcades, whilethe entire upper story, withthe exception of a corridorand the so-called caminata, was occupied by one large hall. The living-rooms were separatedfrom the palace and grouped around the free-standing, two-storiedchapel. A similar arrangement is evident in the remains of thecastles belonging to the
History of mediæval art . on, 1150 to 1170,recent investigations* havethrown much light, v/as ofextreme simplicity. Itsposition was strengthenedby the vicinity of the riverOcker. The ground-floor,lighted by small windows,was divided longitudinallyby a range of piers con-nected with arcades, whilethe entire upper story, withthe exception of a corridorand the so-called caminata, was occupied by one large hall. The living-rooms were separatedfrom the palace and grouped around the free-standing, two-storiedchapel. A similar arrangement is evident in the remains of thecastles belonging to the Rhenish countries and the adjoining dis-tricts, such as St. Ulrich, Giersberg, Rappoltstein, Hohenegisheim,Ortenburg, Plixburg, and Landsberg in Alsace; Trifels and Kaes-tenburg in the Rhenish Palatinate, Minzeberg in the Wetterau nearFrankfort-on-the-Main, Seligenstadt on the Main, Salzburg in theSaalgau north of Wurzburg, Reichenstein in the Taunus, Buedingenand Roppershausen in Hesse, Steinfurt in Westphalia, Cobern on. 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
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