Why Did It Take 632 Years to Complete Cologne Cathedral?

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A well-known example of Gothic architecture and German Catholicism that was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996.
At 515 ft.(157 m), the cathedral is the tallest twin-spired church in the world, and it features the second-tallest spires and is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe.
This is Iconic Builds, and in this episode, we will look at the Cologne Cathedral, Germany's most famous landmark, which is flooded with 20.000 visitors daily.
Although The Cologne Cathedral began to be built in 1248, it took more than 600 years to finish; it still dominates the city's skyline. But the Cologne Cathedral has a history dating back to 1248, back to the early Christian period.
Christian churches have stood where the Cologne Cathedral now stands since the fourth century. The Cologne Cathedral was the tallest building in the world when it was finished on August 14, 1880, and remained so until 1884.
The Cologne Cathedral is home to numerous and diverse works of art. The 13th century saw the creation of the oldest stained-glass windows in the cathedral. A massive stained-glass window by Cologne-based artist Gerhard Richter finished in 2007, is more contemporary in design and a long-lasting replacement for 19th-century glass shattered during World War II.
Nonetheless, the Cologne Cathedral Workshop's current key priorities are the maintenance and safeguarding of the priceless historical windows and the restoration of the stonework, which has been significantly harmed by weathering and climatic factors.
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[@johannes_4675]

I'm form cologne and we local's have a saying that if the Cathedral is finished the world will end. Because it is so big and old that some part of it is alway under construction. So technically it never was finished.

[@brianpasnerkonk7409]

My aunt married a man from cologne. And she said the same thing. Greetings from Malaysia!

[@XGh0sT77]

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings!

[@juguez1]

Stupid believe.

[@Eatthefat.]

lmao. all structures need upkeep. Particularly for religious buildings after they have burned down the native and aboriginal true temples that actually had magic in them. Before hypocritical, lying Christianity.

[@BANGING_RIDER]

Haha bro scientist said it was inspired by HINDUISM there is no info like that .. To rule the world the politicans are spreading the false info 🤡..I wish u become successful in life and have wealthy life. Hope u walk all around the world. U will know the truth. Go and watch with your eyes..

[@sergeanttrucker]

The most stunning building I've ever been in, or seen. Haunting really. Visited half a dozen times in my 7 years in Germany. The massive scale, and the amount dedication and labor that went into it, are hard to comprehend. To reproduce it today would cost billions.

[@mariastenfeldt5564]

Woow,ja va I slottet i im Helsingör,kändes.konstigt där med.😃🙏

[@br78910]

Visited this magnificent structure today and am in awe.

[@humzatariq9043]

I am currently sitting on a train leaving Köln. This is the first time İ have visited this place and İ have never seen something so beautiful, special, enchanting, surreal yet dark at the same time. Truly a masterpiece

[@WhispyrAsmr]

I’ve seen that thing, it looks unreal, I looked up at it, and I couldn’t fathom that the structure was that big

[@DrQualleFiggmann]

The 'Dombauhütte', the workshop which repairs and maintains the Dom was founded in 1248. I applied as a smith once but had no luck. Imagine working such a great place with rich history and lineage of great builders.

[@doola1609]

My mum went to a cathoderal in England, im not sure which one it was. When she went inside and sat down and had tears streaming down her face. Overwhelming visuals and emotions

[@hannahbroughall1023]

Could it have been York Minster? It’s really beautiful

[@Nikioko]

How long did that take to build Cologne Cathedral? 632 years, from 1248 to 1880. But the construction stalled for 300 years. Which perfectly describes the history of the city. When the construction started, Cologne was the largest city in modern day Germany. And with the bones of the Three Wise Men as a relic, it was a major pilgrimage site, which made a larger cathedral necessary. And since Cologne was a wealthy member of the Hanseatic League, the rich population could afford to finance the new monument. But with the downfall of the Hanseatic League, the construction of the cathedral came to an end as well. For centuries, the unfinished church was a symbol of splendour in the city. The chancel was finished, and the west work was under construction, with a large treadmill-driven crane on the trunk of the southern spire. The nave was completely missing. After the Congress of Vienna, Cologne and the rest of the Rhineland fell to Prussia. And the new protestant lords, with the upcoming nationalism, decided to complete the cathedral. For this endeavour, Master Gerhard's original plans had to be rediscovered. Luckily, a linen cloth with the original sketch of the west work was found in Prague. And so, with modern construction techniques, the church was finished in 1880 as the highest building in the world, until it was superseded by the Washington Monument four years later. The roof truss is made by cast iron, rather than would, which saved the building from the bombs in WWII. And today, due to permanent restoration, you hardly see the cathedral without any scaffolds.

[@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762]

Beautiful, and absolutely Amazing!!!

[@AV1611Rochester]

Lil creepy

[@cyby124]

this looks amazing. hope i get to see it one day

[@remind1393]

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.

[@TBS_BellincOfficial]

0:40 the bell not chime like this Cologne Cathedral has 12 Bells. 2 of the Otto Bells ( Aveglocke g' and Kapitelglocke e') has chosen to strike 4 times. Aveglocke Chosen to strike every 15 minutes and Kapitelglocke Chosen to Strike every 30 minute Therefore , The 4th Bell by Hermann Große( Dreikönigenglocke h° ) is chosen to strike in ( 1 - 12 x 3 times ) every hours.

[@CesarNostradamus-wj9uq]

Cologne is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 km southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 25 km northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. The city's medieval Cologne Cathedral was the world's tallest building 1880-1890 and is today the third-tallest church and tallest cathedral in the world. It was constructed to house the Shrine of the Three Kings and is a globally recognized landmark and one of the most visited sights and pilgrimage destinations in Europe. The cityscape is further shaped by the Twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne. Then there will issue from the stock which had remained barren for so long, proceeding from the 50th degree, one who will renew the whole Christian Church. A great place will be established, with union and concord between some of the children of opposite ideas, who have been separated by diverse realms. And such will be the peace that the instigator and promoter of military factions, born of the diversity of religions, will remain chained to the deepest pit. And the kingdom of the Furious One, who counterfeits the sage, will be united. -Nostradamus In Germany will be born diverse sects, Coming very near happy paganism, The heart captive and returns small, They will return to paying the true tithe. -Nostradamus Through the power of three temporal kings, the sacred seat will be put in another place, where the substance of the body and the spirit will be restored and received as the true seat. -Nostradamus The election made in Frankfort Will be voided, Milan will be opposed: The follower closer will seem so very strong That he will drive him out into the marshes beyond the Rhine. -Nostradamus When the snakes surround the altar, and the Trojan blood is troubled by the Spanish. Because of them, a great number will be lessened. The leader flees, hidden in the swampy marshes. -Nostradamus When the greatest one will carry off the prize Of Nuremberg, of Augsburg, and those of B‰le Through Cologne the chief Frankfort retaken They will cross through Flanders right into Gaul. -Nostradamus The year that Saturn is out of bondage, In the Frank land he will be inundated by water: Of Trojan blood will his marriage be, And he will be confined safely be the Spaniards. -Nostradamus Ogmios will approach great Byzantium, The Barbaric League will be driven out: Of the two laws the heathen one will give way, Barbarian and Frank in perpetual strife. -Nostradamus Ark of the Covenant

[@HelloWorld-hb7yt]

it looks so amazing.

[@huseyinkilic8550]

Love @Interesting Engineering.

[@belstar1128]

Ah yes Germany the land of efficiency.

[@Yoshimitsu863]

That was once, a long time ago! Today we don't even get airports built anymore, and our trains are considered on time if they are 1 hour late! My country is not what it used to be.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

We Rhinelander are known to be the northern most Italians. It took the Prussians taking over and forcing us to work for us to complete the cathedral. (our cultural/ tribal capital Cologne was part of the Hanseatic league, had the "Stapelrecht" meaning that every trade going east to west through the HRE over Cologne's longitude had to go through Cologne and be offered to its merchants first, who had the right to declare any product subpar and have it dumped in the Rhine. Added that Cologne is a holy city of Catholic Christianity and the Jacobins pilgrim route going through it, the religious importance also brought a ton of money (the arch Bistum of Cologne is to this day the wealthiest in the world and is e.g. paying for the maintenance of the Peter's dome in the Vatican). Added to that that the arch bishop of cologne was a prince elector (was one of a handful that elected the emperor of the HRE) and hence received handsome bribes every other decade, you can start to see why hard work was never really adopted here. When my grandparents were young the Monday was still considered to be "blue" - part of the weekend and many of our stories are about stuff like the Meinzelmännchen, house spirits that did all the leftover work at night for the Colognians)

[@Supermatsch]

@@Yoshimitsu863 Come on! I'm German too and I don't know anyone who considers a train that's an hour late to be on time. Even the Deutsche Bahn counts a train as belated when it's more than 5 minutes late.

[@budhijeevi7740]

I was watching those small to big sized things video where i saw this church and first thing came in my mind why the walls are black. ? Now i want to visit this church

[@bluenomad73]

The ultimate Cathedral.

[@neiljosephbennett9119]

Perhaps Cologne Cathedral is the tallest "twin-spired" church in the world, but Ulm Minster's spire is taller, making it the tallest church of all. As for being the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe? A contentious issue - York Minster popularly holds that title, but Wikipedia lists the criteria for this claim.

[@TreyS2277]

Crazy how crappy architecture turned out to be

[@megyntheinsaneytp3568]

I have been there twice it’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen (even though im Hindu)

[@krushnachaugule1584]

Dumb comment

[@shilviablog9933]

Br everywhere u have restrictions rediculous!! Churches means Christ is for all

[@LICENFIREFEAR]

what a legendary magnificent building

[@superjumpbros64]

Its epic, God is good

[@Uthael_Kileanea]

Queue music: Grand Cathedral, Serious Sam OST

[@pianoredux7516]

The voiceover doesn't really answer the question posed by the video's title. It cites various facts post-1790 that sidestep examination of the intervening centuries.

[@justimagine2403]

And yeah. It needs cleaned.

[@AV1611Rochester]

Hasn't anybody Google the rumors about this place being haunted

[@tabithahastings6657]

Something happened to my comment. Anyways my phone shut down Isn't that spooky. I didn't finish my sentence I was saying that out of all the comments yours are the only ones that make sense. They just don't know I don't know how that's possible with all this evil going on in the world😮

[@nadirmachadogoncalves7066]

The cathedral lost his window glasses during the ww II. Have they finish changing the glasses to the colourful glasses like that ones were there before the war?

[@jonny2954]

It didn't lose the windows, they were stashed away so they won't break in the bombings. Most of them are original.

[@Lifeisshortsee]

I had to see what everybody was talking about. I can't believe this post It was posted to my page on fb And my phone won't stop beeping with views. I can't find the comments there must be more videos out of this

[@symmetry6320]

Jeremy fragrance house

[@STRENGTH905]

The architecture is amazing and it's seems like it could be the headquarters of Vlad The Impaler.

[@aeglehideseeker7876]

why did i read the thumbnail in Palpatines voice

[@Moodboard39]

Sound like the narrator from how is made

[@Claude_van]

The Ulm Minster is taller.

[@mariastenfeldt5564]

Vilken byggnad😀💙💜🩵💙💜🩷🩷🩵🩵🩷WOooow

[@adrianblood652]

Que the rammstein edit

[@christinegracejohn]

❤❤❤❤

[@zoso7889]

Only Catholics could build such a monument.

[@shilviablog9933]

Made in 1248 it is still alive nd standing straight Still it's not completed institution yet bcs it is made by the name of JESUS 🗿

[@bamamama-ws7kp]

There's no way they get 20,000 visitors a day 😂

[@BerndFunken]

They had to limit the number of visitors to maximum 20,000 a day in 2018 (at that time the cathedral had over 30,000 visitors per day and that was too much). On average there are about 12,000 visitors a day (4.3 million visitors in 2022).

[@tabithahastings6657]

I'm out of here I seen enough. Blind guides

[@priscilla4221]

Same it would be good for Halloween

[@Stonymontana14]

how many boys were touched in there

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

Quit being a moron

[@somerandomperson_23]

opium

[@papagen00]

can atheists still go visit?

[@MTRBR-mp7wj]

Of course

[@nothingevermatters..1109]

Don’t go, I scared you would change your mind

[@priscilla4221]

Church of devil😮 He was beautiful too so say the scriptures

[@AlexanderTheGoat25]

Duh you are just protestant hating, cuz u guys dont have a history