The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL
BOSTON
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.
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The Rhine provinces stand for all that is best and most characteristic of the ecclesiastical architecture of Germany, as contrasted with that very distinct species known as French pointed or Gothic.
For this reason the present volume of the series, which follows the Cathedrals of Northern and Southern France, deals with a class of ecclesiastical architecture entirely different from the light, flamboyant style which has made so many of the great cathedral churches of France preëminently famous.
Save Cologne, there is no great cathedral, either in Germany or the Low Countries, which in any way rivals the masterpieces of Paris, Reims, or Amiens, or even Lincoln or York in England.