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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.
PART II.—CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE.
(Continued.)
BOOK IV.
GERMANY.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
contents.
Historical notice—Circular churches—Aix-la-Chapelle—Nimeguen—Bonn.
| CHRONOLOGY. | ||||
| A.D. | A.D. | |||
| Charlemagne | 768 to 814 | Conrad III., Hohenstaufen | 1138 | |
| Conrad I. of Franconia | 911 | Frederick Barbarossa | 1152 | |
| Henry the Fowler | 918 | Henry VI. | 1190 | |
| Otho I., or the Great | 936 | Frederick II. | 1212 | |
| Otho II. | 973 | Conradin | 1250 | |
| Otho III. | 983 | Rudolph of Hapsburgh | 1273 | |
| Henry II. | 1002 | Albert of Austria | 1298 | |
| Conrad the Salique | 1024 | Louis of Bavaria | 1314 | |
| Henry III. | 1039 | Charles of Luxemburg | 1347 | |
| Henry IV. | 1056 | Frederick IV. | 1440 | |
| Henry V. | 1106 | Maximilian I. | 1493 | |
| Lothaire II. | 1125 | Charles V. | 1519 to 1557 | |
AS might be expected from the known difference of race, the history of architecture in Germany differs in the most marked degree from that of France; and instead of a number of distinct nationalities being gradually absorbed into one great central despotism, and their individuality obliterated, as happened in that country, we find Germany commencing as a great united power under Charlemagne and the Othos, but with a strong tendency to disintegration from first to last.
