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mit Blick zum Vierungssterngewölbe im Hauptschiff.
Der gesamte Chorbereich mit dem Kapellenkranz wurde 1486 - 1520 in spätgotischen Formen errichtet.
Tageslicht vs. Kunstlicht
Die ehemalige Benediktinerabtei mit der Klosterkirche Saint-Étienne wurde ab 1060 von Wilhelm dem Eroberer in Caen gestiftet. Wohl erst nach 1090 vollendet, wurden dem ursprünglich flachgedeckten Bau ab 1120/25 sechsteilige Kreuzrippengewölbe eingebaut, die zu den ältesten in Frankreich zählen.
St-Étienne gilt gemeinsam mit seinem Pendant, dem gleichzeitig von Mathilde von Flandern gestifteten Frauenkloster Sainte-Trinité in Caen, als architektonischer Höhepunkt der normannischen Baukunst und Vollendungsbau der Romanik. Für die Architektur der Île de France waren beide Bauten wegweisend und gelten als Wegbereiter der Gotik. Besonders Saint-Étienne war für die normannische Architektur in England normstiftend.
En cette matinée du samedi 28 novembre 2020, c'est dans la commune de Commelle Vernay que le TER Roanne St Étienne Chateaucreux n°886915, passe avec un retard d'environ 15 minutes, en ce début de journée devant mon objectif, sous ces quelques arbres qui commencent à perdre leurs feuilles.
Ce train est assuré avec cette UM de X73500 qui ont vu leurs peliculage kaléidoscope disparaître en attendant la livrée Auvergne Rhône Alpes.
Old bike
Nikon D800
50mm f/1.4
Saint-Étienne
Place Jean Jaurès, Saint-etienne
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Wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Höhe - 41m - und der Vielzahl ihrer von zahlreichen Künstlern gestalteten Glasfenster - 6.500m² - wird die Kathedrale St. Étienne von Metz auch Laterne Gottes genannt.
Because of it's extraordinary height - 41m - and the great number of stained glass windows shaped by numerous artists, St. Étienne, the cathedral of Metz, is also called God's lantern.
- habt alle einen schönen Sonntag!
- a great Sunday to all friends!
Nikon d800
Nikkor 28-105mm 1:3.5-4.5D
Rue Passerat
Saint-Étienne
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Na opheffing van de overige tramlijnen was in Saint Étienne vanaf 1954 alleen de tramlijn 4 van Bellevue naar Terrasse nog over. De drukke smalle straten waar lijn 4 doorheen reed waren niet geschikt voor autobusexploitatie. In 158/59 werden dertig PCC's geleverd waarmee de gehele dienst uitgevoerd kon worden. Het waren net als de later geleverde PCC's van Marseille rijtuigen met een wagenbreedte van slechts twee meter. De militante en machtige Franse vakbonden lieten productie in het buitenland niet toe. daarom werden de wagens in sublicentie van het B Belgische La Brugeoise en ACEC in de Elzas bij les ateliers de Strasbourg gebouwd met een elektrische installatie die door het Franse le Material Electrique Schneider-Westinghouse geproduceerd werd.
Omdat er toch maar één tramlijn was, is het lijncijfer 4 permanent op het front van de wagens aangebracht. Wagennummer 529 van de tram die we hier zien is met kleine cijfers op de zijwand aangebracht.
Meer plaatjes van PCC-trams vindt u in het album Dreamliners
Ooit was de heldere crème kleur een teken van moderniteit en reinheid. De kleur werd door veel trambedrijven gebruikt voor het wagenpark. Meer trams in deze algemeen gebruikte kleurstelling vindt u in het album "Een echte tram is crème".
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The interesting choir stalls whose decoration includes pagan and mythological subjects were carved in walnut in 1610-13 by Pierre Monge of Narbonne. The walnut case of the organ was carved at the same time, rising some 17 meters above the floor. Restored in 1868 by Cavaillé-Coll and in 1976, the organ is often used for concerts.
(Wikipedia)
Here you can also see that the church has two different axis. One of the weirder churches I've ever seen (and as you may know, I have visited quite a few churches…).
Mongol truck
Nikon D800
Saint-Étienne
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La Grand Roue installée sur la Place d'Armes entre la majestueuse cathédrale St Etienne et l'Hôtel de Ville à Metz (France).
Ferris wheel in Metz (France) at Christmas time.
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Traditional wool-spinning at the transhumance festival, St Étienne.
And in the main square, women in traditional costume were spinning wool yarn. There were also demonstrations of cooking from previous times, as well as other artisan crafts...........
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"The irregular west front exists because the cathedral consists of two incomplete churches, the first dating from the early 13th century, which includes the rose window from 1230; and the other begun in about 1272, on a new plan and a different axis, which was later abandoned, although by 1445 a triforium had been added to the choir and a Flamboyant west portal had been inserted. It is off-center because the architect took care to save the baptismal chapel north of the entrance. An oblong tower, composed of a Gothic portion on Romanesque foundations, and capped by a 16th-century gable belfry, completed the west façade. Also in the 15th century the nave and choir vaults were unsymmetrically connected, while in 1609, after a fire, the choir vault was rebuilt. It was not until the 1920s that its north wall was cleared of abutting buildings and a doorway added, similar in style to the west entrance.
The interior is as disconcerting as the exterior because the two sections are not on the same axis and juxtapose two styles of Gothic architecture. A massive round pillar, built at the beginning of the 16th century in an attempt to begin the transept, now stands incongruously between the two parts, lining up with the center of the nave in the west, and with the south pillars of the choir in the east. The vast proportions of the five-bay choir, with ambulatory and radiating chapels, dwarf the older nave. Of the 15 chapels, the oldest date from 1279–86, but the majority were completed during the 14th century. Most of the stained glass is 19th-century, but there is glass from almost every century beginning with the end of the 13th in the Saint Vincent de Paul chapel. This is the oldest stained glass in Toulouse." (Wikipedia)
This is one of the weirder and more interesting churches I have seen, with the two naves on different axis.
old town of Metz with moselle river, temple neuf church (left) and St. Etienne cathedral on top (right)