Why Did It Take 632 Years to Complete Cologne Cathedral?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The Ulm Minster is taller.

The ultimate Cathedral.

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.

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.

Sound like the narrator from how is made

how many boys were touched in there

Crazy how crappy architecture turned out to be

can atheists still go visit?

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?

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

Vilken byggnad😀💙💜🩵💙💜🩷🩷🩵🩵🩷WOooow

Queue music: Grand Cathedral, Serious Sam OST

what a legendary magnificent building

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

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

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

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

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.

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 🗿

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Que the rammstein edit

Here's another interesting fact about the Church.
During WW2 the Allies bombed the hell out of Cologne completely flat to the ground but somehow missed the Church and Henry Ford's factory which was building trucks for the German Wermarch to kill American soldiers.
Funny how the Global Elites always get away with murder.

The sad thing is it will likely be tore down and replaced with a mosque in 100 years time once they are the majority.

why did i read the thumbnail in Palpatines voice

Only Catholics could build such a monument.

Visited this magnificent structure today and am in awe.

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.

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

Its epic, God is good

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Who in their right mind would think about even planning to build something that would take more than 20-30 years to complete? This video is full of 💩 and the author doesn’t have a clue of what he is talking about!

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.

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

it looks so amazing.

big ass church

My father had a saying something to the effect of: these [this] cathedral will be under construction till the end of days."

The men that started construction of these massive structures knew they wouldn't ever live long enough to see it "complete", with spires finished etc. A huge undertaking it was and still is. As construction continued, some other parts were so old, they themselves needed restoration and repairs. Literally, never ending

I just don’t understand how they got the materials up that high without machinery.Crazy.

This cathedral is vibration stuck in concrete. Just looking at this building makes you feel a certain way.

The modern buildings surrounding it look like 🚮 in comparison.

So this is where anor londo took inspiration from