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Bk. IV. Ch. II. VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF GERMAX STYLE. 29 able city of the empire. In Cologne itself there is the church of St. Gereon, the nave of which with its crypt, belongs to the 11th century, the apse to the 12th, and the deca- gonal domed part to the 13th. This is a most interesting specimen of transitioTi archi- tecture, and as such will be mentioned hereafter. So is the churcli of St. Cunibert, dedicated in 1248, and hardly more advan(;ed in style than the abbey of St. Denis near Paris, built at least a century earlier. The churclies of St. George and of Sion in the same city afford interesting examples of the style ; but even more important, how- ever, than these are the noble church at Andernach, the abbey church of Heisterbach, and that of St. Guerin in Neuss. In the same neigh- borhood the little cliurch of Sinzig is a pleasing specimen of the age when the Germans had laid aside the bold sim- plicity of their earlier forms to adopt the more elegant and sj)arkling contours of pointed architecture.^ A little fartlier u]> the Rhine the church of St. Castor at Coblentz agree- ably exemplifies the later style (1157-1208), its apse being one of the wildest and boldest of its class, though deficient in height. The neighborhood of Ti'eves has also some ex- cellent specimens of round 47!). Rood-Screen at Wechselburg. Puttrioh.) (From 'V, • fr', 40/1, 480. Crypt at GoUingen. (From Puttrich.) ' For more particulars of these churches, see Boisseree, '" Nieder Rhein."