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Rh able city of the empire.

In Cologne itself there is the church of St. Gereon, the nave of which with its crypt, belongs to the 11th century, the apse to the 12th, and the decagonal domed part to the 13th. This is a most interesting specimen of transition architecture, and as such will be mentioned hereafter. So is the church of St. Cunibert, dedicated in 1248, and hardly more advanced in style than the abbey of St. Denis near Paris, built at least a century earlier. The churches of St. George and of Sion in the same city afford interesting examples of the style; but even more important, however, than these are the noble church at Andernach, the abbey church of Heisterbach, and that of St. Guerin in Neuss.

In the same neighborhood the little church of Sinzig is a pleasing specimen of the age when the Germans had laid aside the bold simplicity of their earlier forms to adopt the more elegant and sparkling contours of pointed architecture. A little farther upthe Rhine the church of St. Castor at Coblentz agreeably exemplifies the later style (1157-1208), its apse being one of the wildest and boldest of its class, though deficient in height.

The neighborhood of Tréves has also some excellent specimens of round