German Gothic Church Architecture,9780300083217

German Gothic Church Architecture

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ISBN13: 9780300083217
ISBN10: 0300083211
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-06-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

This wide-ranging book provides for the first time a complete view of German Gothic church architecture. Architectural historian Norbert Nussbaum surveys church construction from the early thirteenth to the early sixteenth century in the German-language regions of medieval Europe. These areas of the Holy Roman Empire -- including Bohemia, Austria, northern Switzerland, Alsace, Silesia, and East Prussia -- were hereditary fiefdoms at the time, and their diverse cultures contributed to the extreme variety of German Gothic. Nussbaum looks at this rich period of architectural history from many perspectives and offers an informative tour of dozens of German Gothic churches, spectacular for both their beauty and variety.

Soon after the Gothic first influenced German builders in the thirteenth century, it developed in several directions, Nussbaum shows. The differences are reflected in the great cathedral lodges of Cologne and Strasbourg, the conscious poverty of form expressed by the Mendicant orders, and red brick churches on the North Sea and Baltic coasts. A fou

Author Biography

Norbert Nussbaum is university professor and holds the chair for architectural history at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Table of Contents

Map
6(3)
Gothic Architecture: The Changing Focus of Research from the Romantic Period to Modern Times
9(6)
The Origins of Style: Gothic and Romanesque
15(34)
The French basis
17(8)
Gothic in the Late Romanesque period
25(16)
The first German Gothic structures
41(8)
The Development of Gothic Architecture in Germany
49(37)
`Opus francigenum'-- the large cathedral lodges and their environs
49(15)
Hall church architecture -- Gothic transforms a regional tradition
64(6)
Mendicant Order Gothic -- planned antithesis to cathedral architecture
70(6)
Backstein Gothic -- the effect of material on form
76(7)
The first stellar vaults
83(3)
Stylistic Pluralism in the Fourteenth Century
86(25)
The Articulated style: forms of the High Gothic
86(7)
New types of Hall structures
93(5)
Backstein churches in the Teutonic Order `State' and in Silesia
98(3)
The move towards asceticism in Mendicant architecture
101(2)
Small venues as sites for testing new architectural ideas
103(8)
Architecture in the Time of the Parlers
111(26)
Schwabisch Gmund and the development of the Hall choir with ambulatory
112(9)
Aachen, Nuremberg and Prague: the emperor as church builder
121(5)
Peter Parler and Prague Cathedral
126(11)
The Fifteenth Century
137(48)
Late Gothic
137(2)
New patronage and the late-medieval construction industry
139(4)
The great tower projects
143(8)
Portals, ornamental gables and choir facades
151(6)
The concept of the Special Gothic's `unified space'
157(4)
Types of urban churches built in the fifteenth century
161(19)
The figured vault
180(5)
Movement in Stone: A Late Gothic Metamorphosis
185(34)
Churches built after 1470 -- the importance of Saxony and southern Germany
185(10)
Ornamental vaults in the west of the empire
195(3)
The breakdown of the articulated system and the move towards organic shapes
198(11)
Benedikt Ried and the great Hall churches of the Erzgebirge region
209(10)
Gothic and Renaissance
219(10)
Notes 229(22)
Bibliography 251(8)
Glossary 259(3)
Chronology 262(3)
Index 265

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