Excerpt from Deutsche Baukunst Des Mittelalters Und Der Renaissance: Old German Architecture The arrangement of the pictures is geographical rather than historical. The reader will therefore not view the masterpieces of old German architecture in the historic order of their birth: rather will he see and enjoy them as though he made a tour through Germany. We begin with the Lower Rhine, go up the Rhine into the S. W. Provinces, then pass into Bavaria and Austria, and on to Silesia, from thence we describe a wide curve through E. And N. Germany, by the middle=german= Lower Saxon territories, and finally come back to where we started on the Lower Rhine. But the geogra= phical arrangement is not, of course, carried out with excessive pedantry; we have at all turns deviated from our route, if thereby we could obtain a more suggestive grouping of the successive pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.