late Gothic style of Saxon origin, buttress system, late Gothic brick architecture
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Arnold von Westfalen started the construction the Albrechtsburg of Meissen in 1471. It was here that the characteristic features of Saxon late Gothic style first appeared: sharply-cut mouldings, drawn-in buttress structures, apertures with curtain arches, and cell vaults. The work was continued by Conrad Pflüger from 1481, and the building was finished in 1525. Pflüger also began the parish church of Annaberg in 1499. The three-vessel hall church with a drawn-in buttress structure and galleries on both sides was vaulted by Jakob Haylmann von Schweinfurt between 1515-1520 with three-dimensionally curving ribs. An earlier example for the drawn-in buttress structure and the side galleries, typical for the Saxon late Gothic, is the nave and aisles of the church of Our Lady in Freiberg, built by Johann and Bartholomeus Frankenwalt between 1484 and 1512.
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drawn-in buttress structure
A special structure of late Gothic architecture that occurs on single-nave and hall churches, where the walls of the building were built on the outer side of the buttresses supporting the vault, not on the inner side. On certain buildings the buttresses do not appear at all on the exterior, while on other structures outer buttresses were also built besides the inner ones. The drawn-in buttress structure appeared in southern France at the end of the 13th century (for example, on the cathedral of Albi). In the 15th century similar structures were used mainly in South- and North Germany.
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late Gothic brick architecture
In those areas that were poor in stone, bricks were often used for building material. The technique of inserting structures of carved stone, carved or moulded bricks into the unplastered walls of brick buildings was typical in Lombardy, Bavaria, Silesia, Poland, and North Germany. Late Gothic brick architecture in Western Hungary is characterised by plastered walls and architectural structures carved from dried clay blocks, then fired and painted. In fact, these buildings hardly differed from stone buildings, neither in the technique of their construction, nor in their appearance.
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