28 miENISH ARCHITECTURE. Pakt H. effect with such diminutive dimensions as this one possesses, the liighest point being only 140 ft. from the ground-line. No church, however, of the ])ointed Gotliic style has its sky-line so pleasingly bi-oken, while the cornices and eaves still retain all the unbroken simplicity of classic examples, showing how easily the two forms mioht have been combined by following the path here indicated. Err- ^/J ^' ' ,">^y,^'*iG -^"-i--^ ^ ■,ja&<ai;>->w- 478. Church at Siiizig. (From Boisser^e.) These are perhaps the finest and most typical buildings in this style, and sufKcient to characterize the form of architecture in vogiie hi Germany in the great Ilohenstaufen i)eriod, and in the century immediately preceding the accession to i)ower of that house ; but they are not nearly all the really important buildings Avhich during the epoch of true German greatness were erected in almost every consider-
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