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[Illustration: COLOGNE CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: MAP of the RHINE VALLEY]




THE CATHEDRALS AND
CHURCHES OF THE RHINE

By FRANCIS MILTOUN

AUTHOR OF "THE CATHEDRALS
OF NORTHERN FRANCE," "THE
CATHEDRALS OF SOUTHERN
FRANCE," "DICKENS' LONDON,"
ETC., WITH NINETY ILLUSTRATIONS,
PLANS, AND DIAGRAMS,
By BLANCHE McMANUS

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BOSTON
L. C. Page and Company
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._




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                          PAGE

Apologia                                            v

I. Introductory                                     1

II. The Rhine Cities and Towns                     13

III. The Church in Germany                         29

IV. Some Characteristics of Rhenish Architecture   40

V. The Accessories of German Churches              56

VI. Constance and Schaffhausen                     68

VII. Basel and Colmar                              83

VIII. Freiburg                                     93

IX. Strasburg                                      97

X. Metz                                           114

XI. Speyer                                        127

XII. Carlsruhe, Darmstadt, and Wies