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34 M RHENISH ARCIIITECTrRE. Part II. ]ierioa ; for it AA^ould be by no means wonderful if in a gem like this the lords of the castle should revert to their old German style instead of adopting foreign innovations. The Avindows are of pointed Gothic, and do not appear like insertions. TJ-JTJII— 131^ Plan of Cliapel at Landsberg. (P^rom Puttrich.) Section of Chapel at Landsberg. (From Puttrich.) Returning again to Switzerland, with which tliis chapter began, M'e find several interesting buildings in that country during the whole round-arched Gothic period, many combining the boldness of the northern examples with a certain amount of Southern elegance of feeling in the details, which to- gether make a very charming com- bination. Among these, none arc more remarkable than the cathe- dral at Zuricli (Woodcut No. 487). Its date is not correctly known ; for though it seems that a church was founded here in the time of Otlio the Great, it is very un- certain whether any part of that 'irjjj-'J^^ii.i^ building is incorporated in tlu; present edifice, the bulk of which is evidently of the 11th or 12th century. The arrangement and details of the nave are so abso- lutely identical with those- of San Michele at Pavia, that l)oth must certainly belong to the same epoch. But in this church we meet with several German peculiarities to which attention cannot be too frequently drawn by those who would characterize correctly the peculiai-ities of German Gothic. The first of these is the absence of any entrance in the west front. Where there is an apse at either end, as is frequently the case in the German churches, the cause is perfectly intelligible ; but the cathedi-al 487. View and Plan of the Cathedral at Zurich. (From Voselin.) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.