Identifier: cathedralschurch00mans (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gh Novesium,Niusa, and Nova Castra bespeaks volumes forthe part it has played in the past. Its origin dates back to the time of Drusus,and it is mentioned by Tacitus as the winterquarters of the Roman Army. The citywas ravaged by Attila in 451, and by theNormans in the ninth century. EmperorPhilip of Suabia captured it in 1206, and gaveit to the Archbishop of Cologne. A chapterof nobles was founded here in 825, and CountEvrard of Cleves and Bertha, his wife,erected, in the first years of the thirteenthcentury, its principal church dedicated to St.Quirinus. This church stands to-day, with its greatsquare tower looming bulkily over the house-tops, and is reckoned as the prototype of manysimilar structures elsewhere. It has the al-most perfect disposition and development ofthe double apse so frequently met with inGerman churches. 308 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine In general, its architecture is of a heavyorder, and the whole structure is grim, thoughby no means gaunt nor cold. .^^
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^t\ A/EU5S St. Quirinus is of the epoch when the Ro-manesque was being replaced nearly every-where by the new-coming Gothic. 309 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine In spite of this, its style is, curiously enough,neither one nor the other, nor is it transition,though the pointed arch has crept in and ofteneliminated the Romanesque attributes of theround-arch style round about. It is manifestlynot transition, because there was no transitionhere from Romanesque to Gothic. It re-mained palpably Romanesque in spite ofGothic interpolations. In the windows one can but remark theindecision which prompted the builders tofashion them in such extraordinary squatshapes, and they certainly serve their purposeof lighting the interior very badly. The nave and aisles of St. Quirinus areample, and its spacious mdnnerchore in thetriforium is like all its fellows in the Germanchurches, an adjunct which adds to the generaleffect of size. The church dates from 1209, the periodwhen the Gothic influence

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