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Ottonian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1010-1031).

St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1010-1031).

Unlike the Romanesque churches that would follow, Ottonian churches like St. Michael's had two apses (visible at the right and left ends of this photograph) and two transepts that divided each apse from the central nave area.

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  • apse
  • crossing
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  • nave
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