What Makes Strasbourg Cathedral An Architectural Masterpiece? [4K] | Extreme Constructions | Spark

It was the highest building constructed during the Middle Ages and is an architectural masterpiece. Built over hundreds of years, between 1176 - 1439, Strasbourg Cathedral is radically different from any other Cathedral. It built using new technologies and according to principles never tested before. For the first time, the researchers were able to trace in 3D the incredible history of this project. They reveal how the builders were able to defy the laws of physics to build higher and higher and explain the importance of iron in this stone cathedral.
Welcome to Strasbourg Cathedral: an exceptional project that lasted 400 years and mobilized the best architects of the Middle Ages. This is the latest episode in ‘Extreme Constructions’ series.
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The Suez Canal. The Paris Metro. Strasbourg Cathedral. These masterpieces of constructions redefined what was possible at the time, using the latest technologies and developments. In this five part series, we reveal how five great monuments were designed and constructed.
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[@Zombot012]

Seeing this masterpiece in person is something you should definitely do in your life. It wasn't an easy and cheap trip from Bulgaria through Frankfurt to reach Strasbourg, but it was SO worth it. No image, no video, no 3D rendition - NOTHING can give you the impression of how majestic this building is in reality. I have tons of pictures and videos, from day and night - they don't do it justice. And look, I'm not religious at all. But standing in front of it, the sound around you disappears and you get the feeling that there's a greater power out there. Not the one described in the fairy tales of religious people, but something that made humans strive for greatness and beauty. Nothing supernatural - just the power of the beautiful human mind. I know it might sound cheesy but man, when you see it with your own eyes in all its majestic glory, you'll understand what I'm talking about.

[@aznhomig]

I visited Strasbourg and the cathedral in 2022. It truly is a magnificent cathedral and magestic in its design. Climbing the spire to the top was definitely an experience for sure.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

The CGI was great showing how it all clicked together, especially the way they used the ropes inside to draw the iron rod into the cavity. Ingenious. I had seen explained the use of iron staples before but not as clearly as this in terms of exactly how it worked - nor indeed to the extent iron was deployed in the cathedral. One almost fancies one can see the very early precursor to the steel framed skyscrapers of today although one can very reasonably argue that 142m - 40 stories - IS a skyscraper!! The folk interviewed were charming - obviously absolutely passionate about what they do and with deep pride and indeed love, for the building in their stewardship. I have to say I share their profound admiration and astonishment at their forbears' achievement. It is truly epic.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Agree ! Where do you even start to plan such a building ? That the Human brain can even conceive the eventual end result .??!

[@unyieldingmonotony4453]

I never thought I'd be so fascinated by iron staples.

[@dougg1075]

The builders man! Those guys were amazing.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

legacy of Rome,

[@user-uy6ug3nf4t]

@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 nice try...these are gothic. stop stealing

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Yeah, they did all that with only very basic computers.

[@jamesbarlow6423]

Loved being there in '82. I'll never forget the little Japanese boy running up and down the nave center aisle with his kite!

[@Demun1649]

I remember, oh so clearly, when I first saw this cathedral. 1982, October, while on holiday with my fiance touring the country. Seeing Strasbourg Cathedral was such a sight, a breathing out of air so quickly, a standing and staring at the wonderful construction built to the glory of GOD. Pat and I stayed 2 extra days just to visit the cathedral, and to hear the choir sing. It was so memorable. I only wish it was at Christmas or Easter.

[@gordongielis5141]

I cried when i first saw this building ( and i am very unsentimental). Until i saw it in the stone i did not realise how delicate the stone work was.

[@sotecluxan4221]

Been there, gorgeous! Also the fables, tales, etc., in Alsace!!

[@doctorfoster1968]

what a fantastic narrator too - so beautifully spoken!

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

Wow! What a beautiful building! Just wow!

[@user-dw1zp4bo6d]

Really its wonderful architecture of world

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Excellent documentary 👏👏🍿

[@GoBlue79]

Incredible. Stunning. Prayerful. Majestic.

[@orangebutblue]

Great documentary. Thank you!

[@gregorywheaton]

1.Ulm Cathedral tower : 161 Meters 2. Rouen Cathedral (151m). 3. Strasbourg Cathedral (141m). the reason I know this is that I climbed Ulm tower while in Germany and knew of it's height dimensions as the tallest Gothic church tower in the world. However, the video was fascinating and allowed me to brush up on my French .. . .

[@henningbartels6245]

the tower of Ulm cathedral (likewise in Cologne) was only completed in modern times under Kaier Wilhelm - though historically Strassbourg Cathedral might have had te tallest spire in medieval times.

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

Ulm wurde erst im 19. Jahrhundert fertiggestellt. Kölner Dom genau so

[@alpe5801]

as soon as the narrator said it defied the laws of physics my mind drifted

[@simongregory3114]

This is a fantastic documentary, I'm really interested in these amazing old stone buildings and I learned a lot, especially about the concealed ironwork and lead. Fascinating. And yet the comments (so far) are full of weird crypto comments and boorish crap. What the hell is that about? Anyway, great doc. tThanks for posting.

[@olireg5696]

Marvelous !

[@johnkilcher477]

Well done!! It never ceases to amaze me, the construction of these magnificent structures some 1000-1100 years ago. I'd love to view this structure 'in the flesh' just maybe...

[@thejedi5079]

If you only knew the half. I don't care what narrative we are fed. They had CNC machines before the resets of the past and the buiings are electric machines It's in the name. And the shape of the windows. Cathedral = cathode an electric device. All the little pinicles on the steeple are part of wireless energy. All the windows can only if been designed from esoteric cymatic frequency patterns. These buildings are all part of a advanced society and you can see it in coloums at the top of them the magnetic toroidal field. We have been lied to about everything. I have studied this for 20 years now and I see these buildings with true eyes 👀. Look at the windows. You can see the cathode design built into the windows. Our God is called ELOHIM OR EL ELECTRIC OHM 1 UNIT OF ELECTRIC AND HIM FOR THE PATRIARCH. WE'VE BEEN LIED TO SO FREE ENERGY CAN BE HIDDEN

[@thejedi5079]

Lol.I have just heard the architect saying there was no 3D printer back then and it's unbelievable 😅. Of course it's unbelievable because it's not possible to build with such presicion unless advanced tools were used. Go and check out the narrative you are given about how many people were living back then and then do the math on how many people it would of taken and then the math of how long it took to build. Even though they are adding to it today it was finished back then and nothing fits together when you search population and amount of time to build etc. I have done this with many buildings and we are told that men with horses and wooden carts built them in 1 year or 2 years. I have done this with many buildings in the USA and they do not line up or make sense.

[@mrlithium69]

encroyable

[@kennylong7281]

One fact remains: It is a product of German culture; Basil, Cologne, Ulm, Vienna, and Strasbourg, are cities of the German heartland. it is a German masterpiece.

[@khalarete2188]

The masons who built this were travelers. It was built by many cultures despite its location.

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

@@khalarete2188 No Most of them were German including the Parler building dynasty who have built other cathedrals Like "Ulmer Münster" or the Veitscathedral in Prague. This territory only came into French Possession in the 17th century, the building was completed in the 15th.

[@JG-mp5nb]

Note: There was NO German or French culture when this cathedral was built. Germany didn’t exist until 1871. France predated Germany but neither existed as you described it. Duchy’s, Dukedom’s, Principalities, etc., but many tiny and shifting alliances unlike European life in the last century.

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

@@JG-mp5nb Germany did exist before 1871, just not as a nation state.

[@JG-mp5nb]

@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 “Just not as a nation state “. Their was no Germany before that date. Bayern , yes. Germany no.

[@DRONIXAR]

Awesome

[@sabbyd1832]

Totally awesome

[@henningbartels6245]

I was not aware that you would translate the (German) names of the architects like Johannes Hültz or Ulrich von Ensingen in to French and then take those translations into the English commentation. Why did the staircase of the spire had to be "like all cathedrals in France"? ... when the Alsace was not even a part of France at the time and the architects had rather connections to Freiburg or Ulm or even Prague.

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

Ja so etwas nervt mich auch sowas von

[@mimamo]

Yep, noticed that too. That was silly. They also, when they mean to show the church spire of Freiburg, Germany, show the church tower of Fribourg, Switzerland instead.

[@jamesneedham6265]

Arguable the tallest medieval spire is that of Lincoln which much bigger, although probably too big as it collapsed in a storm but it did last 230 years

[@jonathancatz6432]

Tell us more about it

[@jesperandersen6201]

From 1311 to 1548, Lincoln had a spire of (believed) 160 meters

[@neslihanalkan2898]

Teşekkürler

[@vincentmancini6279]

Very interesting, but the music is VERY distracting!

[@jonathancatz6432]

By the way, they ommited to mention that strasbourg has the world's first vitrail or stained glass window.

[@kapitanXbomber1989]

37:57 cathedral master race :)

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

CATHEADRAL OF LITE THATS A GOOD NAME FOR A POWER PLANT

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Cathedral. It's a cathedral. They even spell it for you in the title!!!

[@johnharris7353]

It absolutely boggles my weak little mind!

[@treasurehunt7812]

"we don't know how it was done, but we know how it was done"

[@edwardlobb931]

Excellent presentation of staggering genius. However, constant background music is kind of exhausting. It competes with the narration, but is always present now, in nearly every documentary. I was there. It's 333 steps from the flat roof to the ground, down a stone spiral stair that is quite narrow. Would be claustrophobic were it not for the light from open fenestration. When bells ring, the ground at the tower base trembles.

[@jurgenvanvoorst5903]

Does anybody know the title of the book shown at 39:45?

[@asketikoscg]

If you've not found it yet, it's the Musterbuch - personal notebook - of Hans Hammer a.k.a. Hans Meiger von Werde. Now held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Mss. 114.1). Wikipedia has a link to the library's scan of the book, in their Hans Hammer entry, under the sub-heading 'Works'. God bless +

[@3ForestAnimals]

Cool ancient, re-founded cathedral designed as a free energy collector of the old world, the one they erased.

[@Madnikodemus2]

With endless maintenance of the cathedral has anyone considered coating the entire structure with a few coats of clear epoxy?

[@rossrreyes]

ive always assumed the right side spire was bombed during WW2 and they didnt have the money to rebuild

[@donnarhodes4813]

I turned that picture sideways and it looks like the image of The Ark of the covenant ; the symbol in the middle looks like a portal or the little white flower ball you breathe on and the little seed things go everywhere . That’s just my view 🤔💕

[@mimamo]

When you show the gothic spire in Freiburg, you are showing the wrong city and wrong church tower. You mean Freiburg in Germany, however you show Fribourg in Switzerland. Freiburg's church tower is 116m tall, Fribourg's is just 75m tall.

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

CENTERYS AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT BUILT IT YET IT HAS ONE MANS STOKE OF THE BRUSH NO TWO PEOPLE STROKE THE SAME

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Centuries. Sheeeeeesshhh.

[@leonstevens1382]

Raise funds to build a second twin spire.

[@mikeynth7919]

I am going to guess that using the original foundation and not tearing down work that had just been installed may have something to do with *money* and trying not spend any more than necessary.

[@billybunter6659]

Put Divergent into youtube and ltake a look at all the videos he's done about these and other building.

[@claudermiller]

I have a gothic revival house with a Latin cross layout facing east to west.

[@claudermiller]

@Simon McCreath they say in the video the cathedral is in the form of a Latin cross with an east west orientation. Makes me wonder if there was a reason for it and if that isn't the reason mine was built that way.

[@KathrynPieta]

Please make subtitles in BLACK!

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

THE OTHER TOWER WAS RITE WERE THEY PUT THE HAMSTER WHEELE IN THEY MUST HAVE KNOCKED IT DOWN REMOVING THE ENGIN SO COVERD IT UP WITH THE ONLY THING THEY COULD MAKE A WOODEN WHEEL THAT PICKS UP TONES OF WIEGHT AND MOVES IT TO WERE IT NEEDS TO BE AND LOWERING IT ON EVEN OVER HEAD QUITE A WASE.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

If you're going to write bizarre rants, at least spell them correctly otherwise people are going to think you are completely mad and ignore you. I'm less kind than they are so look away now, if you are squeamish. Wheel (not wheele) Covered (not coverd) Right (not Rite - Rite is something completely different. A Rite is a ceremony of a secular or religious nature. Like "he underwent the traditional tribal rites to go from boy to manhood" or "the priest at that church offered the old Rite for Sunday mass" Ways (not wase) Weight (not wieght) Also your use of "were" (which is the past 2nd person, past plural and past subjunctive of "to be" so "you were at the same hospital that she was" or "were I a younger man, I might attempt it") and "where" (which is an adverb so "where do you live?" or "we met in London where I used to live in the Nineties") is all over the place. These are points of grammar and spelling an eight year old would not struggle with. For the love of God go and learn how to spell and write before busying yourself - and embarrassing yourself - with your preposterous nonsense about aliens. Finally, what is it with all the capitals?

[@dagann1]

Stone masons of the day created the most impressive structures known to man. Too little is said and or known concerning the "blueprints" of earlier planning and development. And as stated, only a few were qualified and hired to "do the impossible." They roamed from one site to another armed with the special knowledge to accomplish their goals. And like contractors today, they were aware of a network of specialists and craftsmen needed in all construction phases. Rumor has it that the "building class" (masons) origins is seen in the Giza Plateau of the great pyramids and other sites, i.e., Lebanon Syria's Jupiter Heliopolitanus, and the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek. However, such examples are only a few of many others throughout the world. It is quite obvious many sites were constructed before what is reported by current academic circles. A true "building class" of unknown origin(s) threatens the official dogma and qualified critics are gaining in their research with facts that fail in the official narrative. Yet, I digress. This video illustrates the work done in the middle ages that spawned these glorious cathedrals! What is not said is the number of labor workers that died from accidents in the construction of this colossus structure. Although it took four centuries to complete, you'd think the church would have noted these incidents.

[@tukangkomen4751]

Every big building, majestic and tall, there are always workers who have an accident. Why do you blame the church? Don't you like Catholic ? Protestants have always hated Catholic. you flow Protestant ?

[@dagann1]

@@tukangkomen4751 Well... I'm a Protestant. However, nothing I mentioned is an "attack" on the Church. Grow up and learn to be not so sensitive.

[@tukangkomen4751]

@@dagann1 Yes, I know Protestants really don't like Catholic It is very sad that fellow worshipers of the Lord Jesus judge each other.

[@dagann1]

@@tukangkomen4751 Don't start the "poor old me suffering from Protestant persecution." It doesn't work here. Personally, I could care less about the rift between the Catholic Church of Rome and European critics. I'm an old long haired boy from Missouri and your comments are offensive. Go kick rocks!

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

they had no power tools and only horse and cart

[@YuRiSunga]

30:03

[@kirankm2050]

Incredibly good documentary, but simply give English voice over.... throught the documentary reading subs is so frustrating, it spoiled everything.

[@nomuddywater5978]

Could they finish it today,? Without cheating on the build,? These guys are long gone& took the secrets of the trades with them

[@petrapetrakoliou8979]

The spire of Rouen cathedral was 151 m tall, that of St Paul in London was 149, of Lincoln cathedral about 160 m, so much higher than that of Strasbourg, I wonder why is this forgotten by the filmmakers here? Strasbourg's spire is indeed very high and wonderfull, but does it deserve the falsification of data to enhance it even more? Or do the filmmakers just assume that you don't know anything about medieval cathedrals if you are watching this documentary?

[@mimamo]

There are several errors in this documentary. For example they show the church tower of Fribourg, Switzerland, but actually mean the church tower of Freiburg, Germany.

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

NOW THAT WHEELE ON TOP WE BUILT AND YOU CAN TELL PEOPLE THAT BUILT THAT PLACE WOULD NOT BE COUGHT DEAD USEING THAT WHEELE NOT EVEN FOR THERE HAMSTERS AND WIND WONT TOUCH A SOLID 1 TON OR MORE OBJECTNOT IF ITS SOLID

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

As per my other message to you, these are the correct spellings Wheel Caught Using In the course of my previous message, I reminded you there is a difference between "were" and "where". Similarly, there is a difference between "there" and "their" but you'll have to discover that for yourself. Finally, there are so many examples of wind knocking over solid objects of VASTLY bigger size even than one ton. Do you live under a rock? Have you not seen entire buildings being torn from their foundations by hurricanes? Tornadoes can easily completely lift cars off the ground and transport them over great distances in the air. They can even lift heavy machinery like trucks - in 1890 there was a tornado which lifted 100 ton rail carriages off the track🤣 It takes VERY little effort to research these things so the fact you are unaware, shows not just ignorance, but laziness.

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

there the same all over the world

[@KathrynPieta]

The Greeks could have done better with the hamster. They were masters of gears and counter weights.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Archimedes might have come up with something ? But then..he WAS a genius.

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

Fulcanali

[@lebowskiduderino89]

lord of the rings

[@benediktmorak4409]

man can fly to the moon and back. they were there after all? why cant hey build a second tower? same as in Vienna on the St.Stephen's cathedral. They also have one tower only. must have been really the devil who didn't want the stonemasons to build it?

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

they have NO idea how it was made or we would make them today

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

dont think cathiedrel think cathode

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Again, cathedral. C-A-T-H-E-D-R-A-L It is not difficult.

[@thedarkmoon2341]

Now wait a minute...Am I supposed to believe that men with hammers and chisels and no plans or dimensional drawings shaped intricate blocks that fit together absolutely perfectly?? Get serious.

[@simongregory3114]

51:53

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

Perhaps you aren’t capable of building a cathedral, but that’s because you’re a dope.

[@simongregory3114]

26:23

[@thedarkmoon2341]

​@@simongregory3114 One big drawing with no dimensions? You think there were hundreds of smaller parchments showing details of every piece and how they all fit together? I 'd be happier if I could see just one decent engineering drawing. I was a draughtsman with a pencil long before using Autocad and know how much work would be involved.

[@simongregory3114]

@@thedarkmoon2341 There wasn't just one, elements were drawn full scale on plaster floors, engineers didn't exist but stonemasons had vast knowledge built up within trade guilds through centuries of trial and error. I guess you are a believer in that pre-existing civilisation thing with the mud flood or whatever. Or aliens, or maybe something else. I don't believe in those things.

[@markrowland1366]

Salisbury Cathedral was taller and far better.

[@bastian8763]

eh no that's not true. It's only 123 m.

[@gpan62]

What keeps it up? A lack of tectonic activity, for one. 😉🤣

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

I HAVE NO ANSWERS BUT I KNOW WHO DOES ,WATCH LOST HISTORY OF EARTH FOR ANSWERS.

[@dontforget2289]

Powerplant

[@lutomson3496]

what is amazing that all this money spent on this structure all based on story book characters and imaginary friends..not doubting its beauty, ive seen it in person and am impressed by the architects..what cost to the people at the time? or were it funded by the rich like the Notre Dame is being repaired by? Inquiring minds want to know

[@uilustra6364]

Ordinary people help if they want, but architecture is definitely something to demonstrate the superiority of a state, or you must think it's a random thing that the US, China and UAE build those glass needles. Or the Soviet Union with those weird monuments.

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

it is a power station and we did NOT make it we could not make that today in 400 years thats why we dont

[@kennylong7281]

Absolute perfect, repetitious symmetry is not commonly found in German architecture, (almost never). Germans find this kind of symmetric repetition boring, (As we see in British, and American examples). Nowhere in Europe, will you find more beautiful buildings, which are deliberately not perfectly symmetrical, than in countries with predominantly German cultural heritage.

[@williamslinn5245]

Sack the band.

[@shanehorton7651]

1:50 Bro why u rubbing your chin like something is there. French ppl smh

[@shanehorton7651]

@Simon McCreath

[@simplelifemb]

I'm from India🇮🇳

[@marktrain9498]

I’m not from India.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Wow !! What a coincidence . Neither am I. ..!

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

everybody needs to check out lost history of earth and see how much of a joke and a slap in the face this is .

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

ALL LIES

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Bizarre, truly bizarre.

[@fareshajjar1208]

An immigrant will deal with it sooner or later.

[@rossanomacchioni7746]

The Gothic Architecture Is Overrated. Is Pretty but?

[@janoszeruba5739]

Stupid and cheap light structure building.

[@marktrain9498]

That is one remarkably ugly building.

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

You serious?

[@MrZongee]

Did they fix these joints in the Notre Dame rebuild????

[@nicksamut466]

The greatest structure built by man