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            The world's finest gothic structure, the Cathedral. Cologne Germany.
We are on the left bank of the Rhine; the river is flowing by toward the north (the direction in which we are looking), less than a quarter mile away at our right. Most of the old city lies behind us (south) or off at our left.   
Students of art and travelers who have seen all the famous creations of old-time architects are nearly agreed in calling this the most beautiful Gothic structure in the world. Like most of the medieval cathedrals of Europe it was built as a shrine for the worthy housing of sacred relics brought from the East as the direct or indirect result of the Crusades--the holy wars against the Saracen masters of Palestine.
In the 13th century the old town of Cologne here on the Rhine had possession of certain relics believed to have pertained to the Wise Men of the East. There were churches here already--indeed, the town had been the seat of a bishopric even in the 4th century--but in 1248 the people, being a prosperous as well as devout community, laid the foundations of this, their new church. It was to be the most beautiful building that man could make, rising to heaven with up-reaching towers and spires.
It was a long, slow labor; progress was stopped again and again during five successive centuries, by political struggles between the archbishops and the burghers or by other feuds and turmoils. It seemed as if the beautifully thought-out plans of the 13th century master builder might never be completely realized. Indeed, it was only after a long period of utterly discouraged inaction that the work was taken up once more a century ago, and carried to its perfect finish. Those towers are 512 feet high, the whole church. 468 feet long.    ("Tour of the World", Keystone View Company, Meadville PA, about 1905. Stereoscopic slide T123, volume 3-4.)
   

Taken on: December 9, 2013

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