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608498, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
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Full text | ) afo Cologne. ATX-LA-CHAPELLE, Route 46. 409 xiJAix, united to France in 1792, was separated from it and added the dominions of the King of Prussia in 1845 : since then it has eomspeased considerably both in size and population, aod is now an ogportant manufacturing town. ; “The Hore. pe Vue, Rathaus, on the market-place, recently rolstored, was erected in the latter half of the XIV cent. from the cuisigns of G. Chorus, on the site of the Palace of the Frankish songs, in which Charlemagne was born; its foundation-stone was ; fd in 1383. I[tisa fine building of 3 stories, all vaulted, flanked 212 towers; that at its B. end, called the Tower of Granus, was jobeted in 1213; the other, which is semicircular, formed part of ‘e Carlovingian Palace. The Hotel de Ville is remarkable as ve place of meeting of the Congresses of 4748 and 4818; the confer- -oeces were held in the Krénungsaal, a spacious saloon occu- ocfing the whole of the 8rd floor; the walls of this room are adorned fith 9 large modern frescoes by A. Rethed and J. Kehren ; oegese vepr. 1, The destruction of the Saxon idols; 2, The battle 9 Cordova; 3, The baptism of Witikind; 4, A Diet of the Empire; T The coronation of Charlemagne; 6, The coronation of his son simis; 7, The taking of Pavia, 8, The opening of the tomb of lsaarlemagne; 9, The foundation of the Minster : unfortunately ¢e windows on the side next the Minster have been blocked up cain additional space for the paintings; the pillars and corbels iil e finely sculptured. «fn the centre of the market-place is a fountain surmounted - 7a bronze statue of Charlemagne, erected in 1620. oF The Grashaus, or original Hotel de Ville, in the Schmiede- sarasse near the W. end of the Minster, has a facade adorned with atues of the 7 Electors in niches, c. 1200.. oT The Minster, Domkirche, consists of 2 parts, erected at different comes in entirely different styles : the earlier part is the oldest au- jijugientic example of its style and the most important building of its 4gass in Europe. The Nave, externally a 16 sided polygon, about 4) ft. in diameter, consists internally of an octagon surmounted 5 4ya dome, 47 ft. 6 in. in diameter, supported by 8 piers: it mea- ‘ares 108 ft. in height and is divided into 4 stages; the 2 lower rolfalleries running over the side-aisles are covered with bold inter- geting vaults; the 8rd, like the triforium of later churches, is gaien to the roof; above it are 8 windows which give light to 49) sie central dome, To the W. of this is a Tower flanked on either ofide by a semicircular turret, and to the E. was a semicircular zupse containing the high altar, pulled down in 1383. These for- hoaed the church erected 774-804 by Charlemagne, who designed it se@sa burial-place for himself. The works were superintended ly (ui@iginhard aud the building consecrated by Pope Leo IIT, 365 pre- |
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