Photographing the Cologne Cathedral
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Interesting Facts:
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete.
It is visited by 20 thousand people every day
The cathedral is one of the world's largest churches and the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe.
For four years, 1880-84, it was the tallest structure in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument.
On August 25, 2007, the cathedral received a new stained glass in the south transept window. With 113 square metres of glass, the window was created by the German artist Gerhard Richter. It is composed of 11,500 identically sized pieces of coloured glass resembling pixels, randomly arranged by computer, which create a colorful "carpet". Since the loss of the original window in World War II, the space had been temporarily filled with plain glass. The archbishop of the cathedral, Joachim Cardinal Meisner, who had preferred a figurative depiction of 20th-century Catholic martyrs for the window, did not attend the unveiling
Photographing the Cologne Cathedral
©2010 João Paglione - All Rights Reserved
Visit my webpage www.joaopaglione.de to view images in larger resolution (full screen) or license them for editorial, commercial, or personal usage. Or e-mail me.
Interesting Facts:
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete.
It is visited by 20 thousand people every day
The cathedral is one of the world's largest churches and the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe.
For four years, 1880-84, it was the tallest structure in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument.
On August 25, 2007, the cathedral received a new stained glass in the south transept window. With 113 square metres of glass, the window was created by the German artist Gerhard Richter. It is composed of 11,500 identically sized pieces of coloured glass resembling pixels, randomly arranged by computer, which create a colorful "carpet". Since the loss of the original window in World War II, the space had been temporarily filled with plain glass. The archbishop of the cathedral, Joachim Cardinal Meisner, who had preferred a figurative depiction of 20th-century Catholic martyrs for the window, did not attend the unveiling