sentences:  Many details inside the church suggest that the builders followed the example of Laon Cathedral, the construction of which had been started one or two decades before the Gothic relaunch of St George collegial church in Limburg.In 1802, during secularisation, the Stift's independence was brought to an end (like many other abbeys and Stifte) and it was given to the Princes of Nassau-Usingen.This seizure took place as part of the German mediatization, in which the House of Nassau received the Stift as compensation for the loss of the on the left bank of the Rhine.