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 172 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE was at its height in Cologne in the fifteenth century. The following churches were all enlarged during the latter half of the fifteenth century : St. Ursula between 1449 and 1467 ; the Church of the Holy Apostles in 1451 ; St. Severinin 1479 ; the Church of the Brothers- Minor, St. Lawrence and St. Martin, in 1480 ; and the Church of St. John and Cordula in 1483. In the years 1456, 1493, and 1504 additions were made to the Church of St. Columba. In 1472, and again after 1491, St. Paul's was enlarged. The Church of the Maccabees was erected in 1462 ; the Chapel of St. Thomas in 1469 ; the Chapel of St. Catherine in 1474. In 1477 the Church and cloister of St. Apern ; 1480, the Church and Mon- astery of Sion ; about 1480 the Church of the Brothers of the Cross ; in 1483 the Church and Monastery of Mommersloch ; in 1489 the Baptistery of St. John's ; 1490, the Church of the Weidenbach Brothers ; 1493, the second Chapel of St. Mary of the Capitol ; 1505, the Baptistery of St. Severin. Besides all this, operations were carried on intermittently at the great cathedral from 1447 to 1513. In the Ehenish Provinces, where, on the whole, Christian architecture reached its highest development, the years from 1450 to 1515 were perhaps the most fruitful period of the Middle Ages. Grand structures were erected even in small places ; as, for instance, were built the beautiful parish church, the Chapel of St. Michael at Kiedrich in the Eheingau, and the ' Schwanenkirche.' The latter may perhaps be said to mark the highest point of art in buildings of this sort. It shows also in a striking manner how the architects of those days could adapt themselves to circumstances, and could deal equally skilfully with small matters as with large ones.