House Garden 
inhabitants can easily 
watch the passing life 
in the street, which to 
them constitutes the 
world. The single 
bay in the midst of a 
facade but never in the 
center or aiding any 
end or symmetry; the 
bay of several stories 
in height as seen at 
Sterzing; the poly¬ 
gonal towers attached 
to the facade at St. 
Michael’s ; and last, 
but the most impor¬ 
tant and frequent 
type, the corner bay 
or tower as we find it 
in numberless exam¬ 
ples throughout the 
land, recalling the 
feudal period and the 
early forms of purely 
defensive architec¬ 
ture ;—without full 
recognition of these, 
the most casual men¬ 
tion of Tyrolese 
architecture would be 
incomplete. The 
erker of feudal times 
has persisted through 
slowly changing 
modes of building, 
and has been repro¬ 
duced, perhaps in 
rivalry of the ancient 
lords, by smaller pro¬ 
prietors of later days. 
The bay, for exam¬ 
ple, at the corner of 
the street in Klausen 
(see page 334) is a 
faithful reproduction 
of the erkers of 
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