Bayern Bayern N rnberg . The architecture of Germany which, in its early history and development, takes in that of Austria and the former Czechoslovakia.
Little evidence remains of Roman occupation.
Examples range from St Elizabeth at Marburg 1237, a hall church with trefoil-shaped east end and northern French Gothic features, to the pure High Gothic east end of Cologne Cathedral 1248. Renaissance The Renaissance was influential only spasmodically in Germany, its flow being interrupted by the Thirty Years' War 1618-48. Asam created a masterpiece of German Baroque in the tiny St John Nepomuk in Munich 1733-46. Balthasar Neumann outstepped his Baroque predecessors, creating such Rococo masterpieces as the palace at W rzburg 1720-44. Klenze's Alte Pinakothek 1826-36 is one of the seminal works of museum building.