Ruin architecture

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Landskron : Buildings in a ruin using the existing walls

Ruin architecture is architecture with the inclusion of ruins or art ruins . The ruin can be included as a show ruin or used as a substance for further expansion in order to revive the ruin, such as Landskron Castle , or a war memorial, such as St. Christoph in Mainz.

literature

  • Ulrich Schulze: Risen from the ruins. The romantic ruin architecture as a testimony to the German sense of history . In: Ernst Piper , Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Building and Zeitgeist. A longitudinal section through the 19th and 20th centuries . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5947-1 , pp. 11–33.

Web links

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