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30 30 EHENISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. Gothic, among which may be mentioned the abbey of Echternach, the church of St. Mathias, and the interesting and elegant church of Morzig.i In Saxony there are many beautiful though no very extensive examples of the German style. Among these, the two ruined abbeys of Paulinzelle and Thai Burgal, neither of them vaulted churches, are remarkable for the simple elegance of their forms and details, show- ing how graceful the style was becoming before the pointed arch was introduced. The churcli at Wechselburc: is also interestins>:, though sonaewW* gloomy, and retains a rood-screen of the 12th century 481. Fajade of the Church at Roslieim. (From Chapuy.) (Woodcut No. 479), Avhich is a rare and pleasing example of its class. The church at Ilechlingen also deserves mention, and the fragment of the abbey at Gollingen is a ]»leasing instance of the pure Italian class of design sometimes found in Germany at this age. Its crypt, too (Wood- cut No. 480), affords an example of vaulting of great elegance and light- ness, obtained by introducing the horse-shoe arch, or an arch more than half a circle in extent, which takes off the appearance of great pressure upon the ca])ital of the j>illar, and gives the vault that height and lightness which were afterwards sought for and obtained by the introduction of the pointed arch. It is still a question whether this was not the more ))leasing expedient of the two. There was one 1 See Schmidt, " Baudenkuiale Trier," where all these are figured.