Moller's Memorials of German-Gothic Architecture

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXPLANATION or MOLLER'S PLATES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. PLATES I. to IV. The convent of Lorsch was founded in the year 764, in the reign of Pepin, king of the Franks, and the church was consecrated in the year 774, in presence of Charles the Great, his consort, Hildegard, and his sons Charles and Pepin t....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXPLANATION or MOLLER'S PLATES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. PLATES I. to IV. The convent of Lorsch was founded in the year 764, in the reign of Pepin, king of the Franks, and the church was consecrated in the year 774, in presence of Charles the Great, his consort, Hildegard, and his sons Charles and Pepin t. In the year 1090, the church was burnt, but was soon rebuilt. According to the ruins of this second church, now converted into a granary, it consisted of three longitudinal divisions, the middle one rising higher than the other two. All had flat timber coverings; the windows are small and semicircular, which is likewise the case with the arches under the pillars of themiddle nave. The imposts of these arches are richly ornamented in parts. (See Plate IV. No. 3.) The convent of Lorsch is situated in the grand duchy of Hesse, between the Rhine and the Bergstrasse, two German miles and a half from Darmstadt, and at an equal distance from Mannheim. t See Dahl-s Geschichte des Fiirstenthums Lorsch; i. e. History of the Principality of Lorsch. 4to. Darmstadt. The portico, which is here delineated, forms the entrance to the yard or piazza of the church, in the same manner as the porticoes of some of the most ancient churches at Rome, as St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Saba, St. Clemente, and others. The uninterrupted Attic socle ornaments shew that this hall or portico never had any doors. The stair-cases and upper floors are later additions, after the time when the church was altered into a chapel. The Roman capitals are originally round, as in isolated columns, and are perhaps copied from more ancient Roman buildings at Worms, which is not distant. The whole architecture of this portico appears much older than the ruins of this and other churches of the eleventh centur...