History of mediæval art . The Cathedral of Lubeck, founded in 1171, is the oldest example of this manner of construction, but only a small part of the edifice now remains in its original form. To the same age are referable the important churches of Arendsee and Diesdorf in the Altmark, the piers of which are also provided with pilasters and engaged columns {Fig. 174). In Hesse, Franconia, Bavaria, and the Austrian territories theintroduction of vaulting exercised no important influence upon theformation of the plan and the exterior until the period of transitionto the Gothic style. A somewhat
History of mediæval art . The Cathedral of Lubeck, founded in 1171, is the oldest example of this manner of construction, but only a small part of the edifice now remains in its original form. To the same age are referable the important churches of Arendsee and Diesdorf in the Altmark, the piers of which are also provided with pilasters and engaged columns {Fig. 174). In Hesse, Franconia, Bavaria, and the Austrian territories theintroduction of vaulting exercised no important influence upon theformation of the plan and the exterior until the period of transitionto the Gothic style. A somewhat greater architectural activity wasdeveloped in Suabia and Alemannia, in which countries, much af-fected by the artistic traditions of the Lower Rhine, the peculiarmobility and imaginativeness of the inhabitants favored the elabo-ration of ornamental details, and especially the employment of ani-mal forms in this connection. On the left bank of the Upper Rhinevaulting was early practised and systematized. In Alsace various. 296 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. forms of the vault were combined with the methods of buildingwhich obtained in the Middle Rhenish districts. In Murbach, forinstance, the Convent Church of Laach is imitated, and if the Churchof St. Fides in Schlettstadt was really finished in its present form inthe year 1094, as some authorities have been induced to believe bydocumentary evidence, it certainly displays an exceptionally earlyemployment of the pointed arch. The case is, however, probablythe same with this building as with the Church of Rosheim, thepointed arcades of which are not contemporary with the originalstructure consecrated in 1049. The facade of the latter building,
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