Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . the most remarkable features of which are their two-storiedwooden galleries, â have retained the appearance that the town had beforebuilding in stone became general (fig. 42). The houses mentioned, with well-preserved stone-arcades in their courtyards, have mostly had their street frontsstripped of mediaeval characteristics, and received later features. Generallyonly the great pointed-arched doorway has been preserved. That of no. 7,Theresienstrasse shows especially fine intersecting mouldings. Most often the THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY HOUSE-P
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . the most remarkable features of which are their two-storiedwooden galleries, â have retained the appearance that the town had beforebuilding in stone became general (fig. 42). The houses mentioned, with well-preserved stone-arcades in their courtyards, have mostly had their street frontsstripped of mediaeval characteristics, and received later features. Generallyonly the great pointed-arched doorway has been preserved. That of no. 7,Theresienstrasse shows especially fine intersecting mouldings. Most often the THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY HOUSE-PLAN. 67 oriel of stone or wood is a work of the 17 or 18 century. Thus the housein the Theresienstrasse and the otherwise unaltered facade of no. 17, Winkler-strasse, which dates from i486, both display oriels of the Barock period. The plan of the Nuremberg dwelling house, as brought to full developmentin the 15 century, remained the typical plan also for later times. Its chieffeatures are front and back parts, with a roomy courtyard between them,. Fig. 40. The by Fr Schmidt. united by open arcaded galleries, generally of several stories. Sometimes therelies still farther back a second courtyard, at the end of which is another sectionof the house with a facade on a parallel street. While the ground floor withits spacious, vaulted halls was given up to business purposes, the living andreception rooms were on the upper floors, the latter preferably on the secondstorey. Generally, besides a flight of steps in the entrance hall, one or morespiral staircases, in open towers interrupting the courtyard arcades, gave accessto the upper stories. No interior fittings of the Gothic period are to be found,except the remarkably fine Gothic panelling of a little room in the house of 68 A FIFTEENTH CENTURY PANELLED ROOM. the Scheurl family, no. IQ, Burgstrasse. A clue to its date is given by thedate, 1482, occuring in the stately hall. This little panelled room, disti
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