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Title: The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine

Author: Francis Miltoun

Illustrator: Blanche McManus

Release Date: April 10, 2010 [EBook #31936]

Language: English

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[Illustration: COLOGNE CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: MAP of the RHINE VALLEY]

THE CATHEDRALS AND
CHURCHES OF THE RHINE

By FRANCIS MILTOUN

AUTHOR OF "THE CATHEDRALS
OF NORTHERN FRANCE," "THE
CATHEDRALS OF SOUTHERN
FRANCE," "DICKENS' LONDON,"
ETC., WITH NINETY ILLUSTRATIONS,
PLANS, AND DIAGRAMS,
By BLANCHE McMANUS

[Illustration]

BOSTON
L. C. Page and Company
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1905_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published September, 1905
Second Impression, May, 1909

_COLONIAL PRESS_
_Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co._
_Boston, U. S. A._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Apologia v

I. Introductory 1

II. The Rhine Cities and Towns 13

III. The Church in Germany 29

IV. Some Characteristics of Rhenish Architecture 40

V. The Accessories of German Churches 56

VI. Constance and Schaffhausen 68

VII. Basel and Colmar 83

VIII. Freiburg 93

IX. Strasburg 97

X. Metz 114

XI. Speyer 127

XII. Carlsruhe, Darmstadt, and Wiesbaden 134

XIII. Heidelberg and Mannheim 142

XIV. Worms 149

XV. Frankfort 155