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St. Genevieve, Andernach (diagram) 348 Bonn Cathedral (diagram) 349 St. Castor, Coblenz (diagram) 350 Ancient Cathedral, Cologne (diagram) 351 Present Cathedral, Cologne (diagram) 351 St. Maria in Capitolia, Cologne (diagram) 352 St. Cunibert's, Cologne (diagram) 352 St. Martin's, Cologne (diagram) 353 Church of the Apostles, Cologne (diagram) 353 St. Gérêon's, Cologne (diagram) 353 Crypt, St. Gérêon's, Cologne (diagram) 353 Constance Cathedral (diagram) 354 Freiburg Cathedral (diagram) 355 Abbey of Laach (diagram) 356 Mayence Cathedral (diagram) 358 Gothard Chapel, Mayence (diagram) 358{iv} Abbey Church, München-Gladbach (diagram) 359 St. Quirinus, Neuss (diagram) 359 Schaffhausen Cathedral (diagram) 360 Speyer Cathedral (diagram) 360 Trèves Cathedral (diagram) 361 St. Martin, Worms (diagram) 362

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APOLOGIA

The Rhine provinces stand for all that is best and most characteristic of the ecclesiastical architecture of Germany, as contrasted with that very distinct species known as French pointed or Gothic.

For this reason the present volume of the series, which follows the Cathedrals of Northern and Southern France, deals with a class of ecclesiastical architecture entirely different from the light, flamboyant style which has made so many of the great cathedral churches of France preëminently famous.

Save Cologne, there is no great cathedral, either in Germany or the Low Countries, which in any way rivals the masterpieces of Paris, Reims, or Amiens, or even Lincoln or York in England.

Strasburg and Metz are in a way reminiscent of much that is French, but in the main the cathedrals and churches of the Rhine are of a species distinct and complete in itself.

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Any consideration of the Rhine cities and towns, and the ecclesiastical monuments which they contain, must perforce deal largely with the picturesque and romantic elements of the river's legendary past.

Not all of these legends deal with mere romance, as the world well knows. The religious element has ever played a most important part in the greater number of the Rhine legends. For demonstration, one has only to recall the legends of "The Architect of Cologne," of "Bishop Hatto and His Mouse Tower on the Rhine," and of many others relating to the devout men and women who in times past lived their lives here.

In the Low Countries also,—at Liège, where we have "The Legend of the Liègeois," and at Antwerp, where we have "The Legend of the Blacksmith,"—and indeed throughout the whole Rhine watershed there is abundant material to draw from with respect to the religious legend alone.

As for the purely romantic legends, like "The Trumpeter of Sackingen" and "The Lorelei," there is manifestly neither room nor occasion for recounting them in a work such as this, and so, frankly, they are intentionally omitted.

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In general, this book aims to be an account of the great churches in the Rhine valley, and of that species of architectural style which is known as Rhenish.