Bishop Meinwerk had scarcely taken possession of his see before he commenced the rebuilding of the cathedral at Paderborn, which had been destroyed by fire in the year moo. His predecessor had already begun its restoration, but Meinwerk did not consider the work sufficiently magnif icent, and therefore demolished it. The new cathedral was completed in ro13. It is related that Greek workmen built the Chapel of St. Barthol omew. This structure yet remains, Lilt shows no tendency toward Byzan tine forms; so that only the larger experience of Greek artisans—who were doubtless brought from lower Italy, but who worked under the direction of Western architects—here lent aid to the Germans. The capitals of this chapel show traces of the Corinthian style, hut without the abacus. Here also a square impost lies upon the capital, with a bold cornice from which the arches spring.
Great as was the architectural energy of that period, little remains of the edifices then reared, and we can only fill out the series of architectural monuments by the aid of descriptions which have come down to us. In North-western Germany we meet with the before-mentioned Bishop Arnulf of Halberstadt as the founder of the monastery of Ilsenburg, to which Otho III. donated (99S) the royal castle of that place. The Cathedral of \Valbeck was rebuilt after a conflagration in loll; the walls of the central nave here rest upon plain quadrangular pillars. Bishop Wigwer built the Cathedral of Verden in 1013; in 1014, Archbishop Gero founded St. Mary's Collegiate Institution at Magdeburg; Archbishop Unwan in ior5 built, of wood, a cathedral at Hamburg, in place of the cathedral, also of wood, which had been burned; and at Merseburg, where the seat of a bishopric was again established in 1004, Bishop Thietmar in roi5 began a new cathedral, which was dedicated in 1021 under his successor, Bruno.
In 1016, after the completion of the cathedral, Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn commenced the Benedictine monastery of Abdinghof. The building of the convent, particularly of the church, was protracted for ten years after the crypt had been consecrated three years; the edifice, when almost completed, fell in, and could not be consecrated until 1031. In the years 1033-1036 the same bishop built in the east of the city the Church of Bustorf, the design of which he had taken from the Church _of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. At this date edifices were also erected at Korvei.
Bishop Burkhard I. of Halberstadt (1036-1059) evinced great architec
tural zeal, building twenty-four establishments in his diocese, of which that on Mount Huy attained special importance from its convent. The bishop himself took part as a workman in the construction of the chapel, was completed in the fifth decade of the century. The first stone cathedral in Hamburg was built by Archbishop Bezzelin iu ro37, and the still-existing church of the nunnery at Kemnade—a small building with square piers—was consecrated in 1046.
Bernward's successor, Bishop Godehard of Hildesheim, continued the constructive activity of his predecessor, and built (1023-1027) the minster of the Epiphany, south of the cathedral, and also eastward of the city, in the Sulze marsh, a castle with a Chapel of St. Bartholomew and a larger church, dedicated in 1033. West of the city, on the Zierenberg, he also built a castle serving as a summer residence and having a Chapel of St. Maurice. By 1035 he added to the cathedral an entrance-portico, and also a bell-house. As in 1046 a conflagration had overtaken the cathedral at Hildesheim, with its many adjoining buildings, Bishop Azzelin demolished the entire group and commenced a magnificent cathedral. During the construction of this so many accidents occurred that at his death, in 1054, it was deemed impracticable to finish it, and his successor, Hezilo, erected a new and more modest structure, which was dedicated in 1061, and whose nucleus still remains.
Bishop Hezilo erected the collegiate Church of the Moritzburg, the three aisles of which were borne on arcades supported by columns, and also the collegiate Church of the Holy Cross. Hezilo's architect was the provost Benno, famed as the first architect of his time, who also erected for the emperor Henry III. the Cathedral of Goslar, dedicated in io5o. In its arcades, as in those of St. Michael at Hildesheim, two columns and a quadrangular pier alternated three times.
In io3o the see of Zeitz was transferred to Naumburg, where the new cathedral was dedicated about io5o. At the same time the collegiate church was built upon the site of the old Cathedral of Zeitz, and the crypt may be a remnant of this building. At the Castle of Goseck, near Naum burg, a convent was founded in iov. Two years later the crypt of the conventual church was consecrated, and in io53 the church itself was dedicated to St. Michael; about to6o-ro62 a part of the transept was. built.