Cologne Cathedral - History of a German Gothic masterpiece 

You should come and see it again!

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Een onzinnig verhaal, dat stuk steen heeft het land niet kunnen vrijwaren van de ellende van oorlog en moord. Ja, misschien heeft het de pedofielen geholpen om hun lusten bot te vieren, meer niet.

What a magnificent story. My eyes are in tears. My father was also in WWII & although he is now gone I cherish his wonderful stories. He was a Seabee in the US Navy. Thank you for sharing such a heartfelt story.

I'm a native of Edinburgh. In my 70 years some buildings in the city centre have been replaced 3 times according to architectural fashion. The 11th Century Chapel in Edinburgh Castle, and many homes and buildings from 4 or 5 hundred years ago still function beautifully and don't suffer with cladding that could catch fire, or softening concrete. People have nothing in mind but money nowadays. Save on materials and charge a fortune because it can always be replaced. It's horrific how the throwaway society cares nothing for pride in construction.

Sagrada as in sacred

We can still build these things

To expensive to build beautiful buildings nowadays

As it took until 1880 for the cathedral to be completed, it doesn’t appear in this case 13th century people could build a grand cathedral. Barcelona as you point out is building a grand cathedral now.

Truly striking. I will always remember seeing it for the first time in the 1980s.

Excellent idea! Thank you for that

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And I imagine the result is that you respect others’ property and know how to act like a human being.

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If I saw them doing that, they’d have a tough time eating the gum with no teeth.

Absolutely agree... I'm an atheist and yet everytime I hear/see someone answering a call, eating (gum included), being dressed as if they were going to the beach, etc. in a church, it really pisses me off. Just f... off to Disneyland...

@@C.O._Jones How very 'christian' of you.

@@leftpastsaturn67 It actually is. It’s much better for them than what I actually want to do. And rest assured that I hold you in the exact same regard I have for them.

​@@leftpastsaturn67 You know: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" Old Testament. Not my opinion.

Do you REALLY believe it was built that way? How naive you people are...

Learn to speak ENGLISH before asking damned stupid questions.@@user-ml6xc1hh8t

@@YTChiefCritic No, aliens with anti gravity machines pitched in.

Really??? Npc comment

The cathedral is not “infamous”, you disrespectful platypus.

@@C.O._Jones This seems to be a simple spelling mistake. No need to be mean.

@@DWHistoryandCulture That’s not a spelling mistake. If the man can’t use the correct English word, he should use his own language.

I believe much of the area was deliberately *not* bombed because it was such an easy landmark seen from the air

That's not really a fair comparison though is it? I know cathedrals ARE churches, but I'm going to assume you meant regular parish churches - and of course they are going to seem somewhat anticlimactic by comparison with not just even any old cathedral, but amongst the most magnificent to be found anywhere on the planet. That being said, may I also respectfully contend, that until the middle of the sixteenth century, England was as Catholic as anywhere else - and just as Gothic, Mediæval - and prone to superstition and excess as anyone else - with the architecture to match. The ancient English cathedrals are a match for any - Benedict XVI (presumably familiar enough with large and ancient churches....)was visibly awestruck and moved by Westminster Abbey when he came to England in 2010. Your comment leads me to suspect that you have not availed yourself of most, or any, of the splendours which dot this isle - if you had, it would be inconceivable that a complaint of "plainness" could be applied and an unequal comparison implied: Winchester, Salisbury, York, Gloucester, Worcester, Ely are my picks for your first half dozen. Any and all of the above are beyond compare. I suppose Canterbury would feel offended to be left off - and Bath, Norwich, Durham, Wells, Peterborough are all absolutely fabulous days out, most of the cathedrals there absolutely dripping with the curlicue serrations and astounding minute tracery in stone and wood that you favour - and you should see the just mentioned Westminster Abbey and while there, St Paul's - which while Baroque, not Gothic, makes up for its lack of intricately carved detail by its thumping great size, sense of incredible, mountainous solidity and one of the longest echos in the business. If you're lucky enough to catch the choir rehearsing - or even just the assistant sub organist - you'll be guaranteed to be blown away. In THAT sense, England, clearly Protestant by then, on the cusp of world primacy and nurturing in its bosom some of the greatest Enlightenment geniuses of the day - Wren, Newton, Boyle, Hooke, Hume, Marlborough - of course was going to project itself cockily and in a fresh new way, departing the gnarly, spooky Gothic of the Middle Ages for the very smoothest, whitest limestone and marble and neo Classical pediments, porticos, colonnades and domes. Anyway, there's no reason to be defensive since, as I said, any and all of the above palaces of ingenuity, determination and, let's be honest, (archi)episcopal/cardinalatial hubris - positively bristle with the sort of stunning detail you admire - quite rightly - at Cologne.... I m sure you will appreciate for yourself the impressions I have certainly had, from all of those spectacular places. And if you can't make it in person, try some of the better quality documentaries 🙂

Yes, that’s exactly what happened to me, too. I walked over Mc.Donald’s across the road and went to the bathroom down the basement, then there was black-man at the door collecting money 💰 for using the restroom.

The McDonalds across the street still exist. ;-)

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@@DWHistoryandCulture Oh,I thought I was subscribed your channel, but that was your documentary channel. Now I subscribed also your history and culture channel.thanks for reminding me.

They actually showed exactly that being done with a laser - someone wasn't paying attention 😏

Cringe

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What dont you understand about it?

Give up. Slaves dont buy, sell.

Uhmm...No?

Get some new glasses. Definitely!

Dude, you can see both the Rhine and part of the roof of the Hauptbahnhof at the end of the shot...

That looks nothing like Lincoln Cathedral.

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Can charge 5 per person times 20,000 persons. My math says that is 100,000 monetary units per day. That will put a dent in the cleaning bill. Is that 36.5M? Each year? Wow.

Sort of

There were eleven world wars?

Just say the native Köln instead.

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Of course blame it on the easy planned scapegoat lmao, what am embarrassment

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Probably not.

Christians are soft and no longer have that Viking amd Crusade spirit in them,Islam will gradually take over Europe and everything which is not associated with Islam will be removed or destroyed,its evident from their history

Least obvious troll 😂

For souvenir

I was wrong. I google it and i found it. In my mind to complicated to make miniature 😅

No Europe will not.

Cologne had been bigger than Paris for centuries.

He doesn’t, The Holy Spirit dwells inside of us.

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