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This 3 page paper discusses the cathedral in Cologne, Germany. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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beautiful in Europe. This paper describes the cathedral, analyzes it, interprets it and judges it. Discussion Description: The present cathedral was begun in the 13th century, on the site of
an older church that was built in 818 and burned down in 1248 ("Cologne Cathedral"). The first church was on the site of an even older building, a 4th century
Roman temple ("Cologne Cathedral"). The cathedral was completed some 600 years after it was begun, but work continues on it to this day ("Cologne Cathedral"). It was built to house
particular relics, in this case those of the Three Magi, which were "taken from Milan by Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa and given to the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald von
Dassel in 1164" ("Cologne Cathedral"). The dimensions of the building are staggering: it is "511 feet in length, by 231 in breadth. The towers reach to the imposing height
of 511 feet, and the west gable, corresponding to the width, is 231 feet high. The choir is 161 feet high and the central nave rises to a height of
144 feet, with a breadth of 44 feet" (Platt). One of the main features of a Gothic cathedral is the external supports, known as flying buttresses that direct the load
of the roof down to the ground. Cologne Cathedral boasts a "double range of stupendous flying buttresses and intervening piers, bristling with a perfect forest of pinnacles" (Platt). As is
traditional in Gothic churches, the building is in the form of a cross, and "the arches are supported by a quadruple row of sixty-four columns" (Platt). The stained glass in
the building is regarding as particularly fine (Platt). Visitors to the building are overwhelmed by its size and grandeur. Analysis: Wilhelm Schlink provides an interesting analysis of the cathedral noting
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