Well, it's discovery channel. Now that smoking is not fashionable anymore, the Marlboro man needs to narrate these stories for the general audience in the most sensationalist style. Same goes for animation. People with the IQ of a used camomile teabag and an attention span of a fruit fly need to be constantly re-stimulated again. A scan just through the interior? They immediately zap away...
@Chi Funk I think the brainwashing goes to those who dwell in the occult. No, especially Catholic churches are for worshiping the one true God. I'd be happy to make an introduction if you are interested.
500 words? I once had a really strict teacher that had us do 750 words per paragraph, and an essay made of 11 paragraphs. She was my 7th grade teacher.
@R RQ Pointing out a joke totally ruins the whole premise of it. The joke is supposed to be self explanatory so pointing it out makes you seem like a real idiot. Also you need to chill out.
One important information is omitted: The Cathedral was unfinished for centuries. Although started in the 12th century, all construction stopped in the 15th century. Later on it almost fell into ruins. (Some time even being a stable for horses of the French army.) It took more than 300 years, till 1843, until the construction was restarted. And then an other 40 years until finished. That's why the roof has beams made from iron instead of wood.
Heard in a documentary: Sadly it's only a beautiful myth that it was spared on purpose in world war two. Actually it was hit several times and that red steel frame and voluntary helpers extinguishing fires saved it. Incorrect english, I know...
It didn't become a stable for napoleons horses because of its condition, but as an insult to the german population and a sign of napoleons continued war on the catholic church. Other than that i approve your comment.
@@user-bj2lu9qt3o the Richterfenster (richters' window) is where the dom was hit the hardest by a bomb, which is why that portion had to be redesigned (with that awfull modern technology hype of 20 years ago)
This building is the remain of the Tartarian Empire, this kind of architecture is all over the world, few of them survived but mostly distroyed by freemason to cover up the true history
Satisfying you immediately: candles. A metric shit-ton of beeswax candles would be lit in every altar, every pillar base, and every wall. (This would be rare, of course, because normal medieval churches close around sunset and masses in the early morning are mostly, if not always, only celebrated in the countryside for the farmers who had to rise up early for work.) EDIT: Satisfying you even more because I found this tweet that could illustrate what a medieval church only illuminated by candlelight would have looked like. twitter.com/StAlphonsusFSSP/status/1074402185109217280?s=20 (The people there would have looked similar to back then, too. That's a plus.)
Not satisfied. because the video did not include that. At least they should have shown the configuration of the candles inside the church, since the title is how the churches were illuminated before electricity.
Andrew Andora Happy to be of service. Just to hammer home the point of how much work would have been done to illuminate a big church, here's old footage of St. Peter's in Rome lit by thousands of candles. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DWWA97CsBek.html
I'm really sure the editor of this video wanted to work in a Transformers movie. The loud and dramatic sound effects I can't barely hear what they are saying and the video cuts repeated again and again. The narrator ask the question, then mumbles into nothing and never answer it. A MESS.
The good thing of that is seeing how overated Notre Dame is. Not even in my top 5 moxt impressive gothic cathedrals.. but you now, the one of Paris will always get all the attention. If the others burn, most media would just ignore it
@nanda erdhani There's always one. The CG shows nothing of how the cathedral was built. The exploding outwards bears no relation to the construction techniques and stone masonry required to erect this strructure and it is constantly repeated. It looks shit and is accompanied by shit sound effects. If you think it was good, useful and related to how the structure was actually built? Well then you're an idiot. It was a cheap, gimmicky time filler
Pretty weak sauce. No talk about the clerestory or anything that actually had to do with the rather ingenious lighting design. But we got to see that 3D model pull itself apart oh, 3 or 4 times. Meh.
I live in cologne and no matter how mamy times I set foot in this cathedral it always manages to take my breath out of me you can only experience its sheer size if you see it for yourself
Having visited the Köln, I can attest to the fact that this is a structure that shows how small you are. The other is the Milan Cathedral but it occupies more Land area & isn't as tall & dark.
"...this is a structure that shows how small you are." You've nailed it. I recomment to everyone to visit the Cologne Cathedral. It touches you! I live nearby (all my life) and it get's me EVERYTIME I stand in front of it. See it from outside - so impressive! Go upstairs, to the highest top (Many stairs! But an exciting challenge!) - highly impressive because it's narrow and there are many openings, you can feel the wind, see the people like ants... See the golden coffin of the 3 holy kings. On some occasions you can hear the sound of the big bell called "Dicke Pitter" (Fat Peter). And most beautiful in wintertime: The Christmasmarket.
Why do you always take the wrong word in english when borrowing german names? A Stein is a stone, a Steinkrug is a pitcher (Krug)made of stone. The Kölner Dom is colognes' cathedral, where Köln is the actual name of the city cologne and Dom means cathedral.
Well if you are one of the electorades of the holy roman emperor and take 10% of everything earned in the wealthiest city of europe, the most important trading center in mainland europe, part of the hanseatic league, having the staple right for all goods transported from west to east crossing colognes longitude in the empire, the biggest fortification of europe and the biggest pilgrims destination of medieval europe, then you can afford to pursue some insane ideas (though even this formerly richest city of western europe ran out of fonds eventually after 3 centuries, halting construction till the prussians forced us to complete it in the 19th century)
The facade and towers were built in the late 1800's. The video did not point this out. The construction techniques even a hundred years ago were so much more mechanical that a certain harshness is apparent. The rear of the church was built using the "machines" of the Middle Ages and has a less harsh appearance. I agree with everyone else about the background music. Also, the video did not talk about the candles, assuming there was something innovative about that.
I've been to Cologne Cathedral. I can say without reservation that it is easily one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I recommend anyone traveling to Germany make the time to go see it. Even if Cologne isn't a stop in your plans, the train station is right by it. So if you take the train through there, you can easily break the trip up so that you have a couple of hours to see it. As a modern person even, when I first walked through the doors I was awestruck. All I could think was what it must have been like to see it two or three hundred years ago when there was no such thing as skyscrapers or airplanes, much less space travel. To any pilgrim visiting, there would be no denying that they were in the house of god.
I am still amazed that this amazing structure survived Allied bombing during WWII. I was lucky enough to have worked 6 months in Bonn, so every time we would visit Koln, the train station was literally right next door. If you ever visit the NRW, be sure to visit this cathedral. The Dom rules.
The cathedral is a power station it connects to the ionisphere and uses mercury to create a torus field the windows didnt originally have glass in them
The engineers and architects would have had no experience to fall back on with this building as it had not been done before , it is incredible that this building even exists and also survived WW2 .
there were literally thousands of yathedrals built in europe, and the wokers were experts, often traveling the continent from one construction site to the next, o learn and later to work. Far from 'no experience'
How could they possibly build such a complicated and beautiful structure with not so much advanced building technology in ancient time ? That's why I am so sad to see the Notre dame de Paris accidentally got burnt a few days ago, I hope they will rebuild it fast and this Church will stay many more hundred years , they are the statement how amazing the Human brains are in creating magnificent buildings like that !
Gebürtiger Kölner aber inzwischen stolzer Düsseldorfer. Landeshauptstadt olé! Kniet nieder ihr Knechte... und Kölsch hört sich übrigens nicht nur abscheulich an, es schmeckt auch so.
i'm pretty sure technology has only progressed since then. only, no one can be bothered building massive and voluminous cathedrals anymore, when work and living space is at such a premium these days.
@@rin_etoware_2989 Yet these buildings draw in countless tourism despite modern "tourist draws" looking like trash heaps. The argument that they just had space to waste is silly given how much vacant room we have today that is squandered on projects that don't bring in 1/10 the amount of people as these historic buildings. I'd love to see a single building from the last 100 years in any country compare to these works of art.
Using candles and torches for lighting in the olden days must have lead to a lot of structures burning down.Theatres and opera houses were notorious for suffering this fate many times over.
I've seen this both from the inside and outside (and the one in Paris, and Milan, and Florence). I love Gothic cathedrals/churches. Even the church in the village I'm from, 15th century Gothic (and obviously a lot simpler than this one).
medieval building still standing this perfectly wow nice. People back then were far more advanced in many things, we think they ate rocks but these people were highly intelligent.
When I was an Interior designer student, like 20 years ago; we had to do these presentations with the given subject in architecture style. I got the Gothic and BOY! I got so immersed in it... I studied every little detail of all the names of the parts of architectures such as ornaments and column and archs techniques used in the comstrictions of such buildings. Every time I see Gothic cathedrals being explained I say the names of each type of column or window or arch or ornament as the narrator says along... in that time I had to go to the library and make research on books and copy them to present them as illustrations. I was impressed of the amount of details and intricacy those buildings had. Amazing indeed! (Arbotantes, arcos de ojiva, rosetones, gárgolas, pináculos punta de aguja, planos de los diferentes tipos de cruces eclesiásticas y sus propósitos, los atrios, la flor de Liz... simplemente fascinante.
@@angelabby2379 abby you have alot of faith in people who lie 70% of the time. all in all you are entitled to your opinion of course. academia lies way to much for me to believe anything they say. but you do you abby by all means.
@@angelabby2379 why because i question the status quo. because i find it hard to believe that barbaric humans were capable of building something so awesome? or because i question academia? regardless sorry you feel that way. but like i said you are entitled to your opinion its a free speech country. you believe the narrative if its what helps you sleep better at night. you do you
the cathedral got its black color from smoke from all the burning buildings when cologne was fire bombed during ww2. The cathedral was finished in the 1870s. It took over 600 years to build. And the crane used to hoist the stones was built in the 1300 or 1400s. It stood on top of one of the unfinished towers for over 500 years, and was used to finish the cathedral in the 1870s. The only reason why the cathedral stands today, is because it was used as a navigation landmark for allied pilots.
lol The outside of the Cathedral is not made of black material, nor is it just dirty, instead, the sandstone which most of the building is made from reacts with the sulphuric acid in rain and turns dark grey, giving the Cathedral its distinctive dark colour over time. This is why repaired sections look much whiter and lighter than the rest of the building, although in time they will darken to match the older stone.
"the cathedral got its black color from smoke from all the burning buildings" - that would mean that no limestone building which was never affected by smoke from other buildings burning would have developed a darkened exterior. Try atmospheric reactions - and pollution from vehicles, particularly diesel pollution.
"The only reason why the cathedral stands today, is because it was used as a navigation landmark for allied pilots" - do you really think that aircraft bombing could have destroyed so much of that giant stone structure that it would never have been rebuilt, or that bomber pilots or their commanders would have chosen to use bombs to cause such destruction instead of bombing other targets in and around the city?
"We paid thousands for that animation Charlie, please don't tell me you can't make it fit a couple of times more..." "It's a 7:30 Ralph, are you sure?" "... Thousands Charlie, thousands"
You can not imagine how big and magnificent it is until you step out of the cologne main train station turn left and there it is in its full glory. It is really shoking.
They did have cranes :) c8.alamy.com/compde/dgmk3d/historische-gravur-kolner-dom-mit-einem-kran-durch-wilhelm-von-abbema-1824-eingraviert-in-stahl-von-carl-mayer-kunst-dgmk3d.jpg
It should be mentioned that the stained glass was removed during WWII to protect them from the bombing raids. After the war there was a man who had headed up the project to put the stain glass back, but he objected to it being done. So plain glass was left in place until he had died. As you can see, the original stained glass is being put back in place. I was to the cathedral back in 1989 while the plain glass was still in place. It would be nice to go back and see the original glass back in place.
DIVINE architecture. Can't imagine men getting to creature this BEAUTY without the supporting hand of God. This is impressive even today and not sure if with all the technology and knowledge we would be able to reach this level of achievement and perfection imagine how a common man or any sort of men those days would feel entering this environment. It would definitely be like entering another dimension closer to God. All the Glory to God ❤️🙏
What's even more impressive is how God can change the human heart , no cathedrals required... I understand what you are saying but God is not about outward appearances He's about whats inside 🙏
