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94 •J4 ARCHITECTURE OF NORTHERN GERMANY. Part II, (Woodcut No. 536). It is an honest and pnrpose-like piece of archi- tecture, but certainly without any pretensions to beauty of design. Further east, in Ermenland, as Eastern Prussia used to be called, there are many brick buildings, which from their picturesqueness and the appropriateness of tlieir form half disarm the critic. Among these, for instance, such a church as that of Frauenberg (Woodcut No. 537), with its light graceful spires and its brick tracery in its gables, is an object, if not of grandeur, at least of considerable beauty in it- 537. Chureli at Fravienberg. (From Quast, " Deiikniiiler der Baukiuist in Ermenland."; self, and in this instance is grouped with so many others as to form a more picturesque combination than is usually to be met with on the shores of the Baltic. The church itself is 300 ft. long by 80 in width, and has three aisles in the nave, of equal lieight but unequal width. Its worst defect is the plainness and bulk of the octagonal piers which support the vault. The next illustration, of the church at Santoppen (Woodcut No. 538) is a type infinitely more common in Ermenland. In Quast's work ' are soffie dozen churches varying only slightly from this in design, but 1 " Denkmaler der Baukunst in Ermenland." Berlin.