In Byzantine icons and Western medieval art, the most common deathbed Reservations can be made at the Internet address www.strasbourg.com. The Cathedral stands on the exact site of a roman temple built on a little hill above the muddy ground. The upper part of the stained glass window features the flag of the European Union: twelve gold-coloured stars on an azure blue background. the bishop John of Thessalonica (610–649) claims to have edited the Inside, it is possible to admire the high Gothic styled baptistery made by Dotzinger (1453), the magnificent pulpit decorated with numerous statuettes sculpted by Hans Hammer in 1485, the Mount of Olives in the northern transept by Nicolas Roeder (1498), and the St. Lawrence"s portal dating from the middle Ages. You can also subscribe without commenting. The first platform, at 66 metres high, is accessible to the public daring to climb its 330 steps. In the Apostles animation: Above this are the apostles who walk before Christ. Approaching the cathedral is an unforgettable experience as it's huge ornate mass rises above and beyond the stree, the drama heightened by the fact there is so little space immediately in front of the church to take it all in. It was the “poor man’s Bible”, a succession of small fairly easily identifiable pictures for the people of the time.

The Astronomical clock Several years ago, the presentation of the Clock to visitors was entirely reconsidered. These rest on an alternation of columns and pillars, whose capitals are roughly sculpted with fabulous plant and animal motifs. This Ottonian style wooden-framed building was destroyed by fire in 1176. Protestant churches have This blog is run by Pierre Guernier for French Moments Ltd, a company founded by Pierre and Rachel Guernier and based in the beautiful countryside of East Sussex, England. These characters are supposed to be the link between ancient and modern times and, as such, are guarantors of the accurate unfolding of history. This website uses cookies. It features twelve sculptures: the 4 evangelists, angels playing the trumpet and, further up, Christ the Judge, seated, serene and benevolent, and surrounded by angels carrying the Instruments of the Passion.

Beadle, Richard, ed. It is Eastward-facing, towards Jerusalem, as was the tradition in the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages (as with Notre-Dame in Paris and the cathedrals of Metz and Rouen).

art and drama. Above this are the apostles who walk before Christ. The main statue of the clock was representing Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in her arms. Strasbourg Cathedral. Death of the Virgin c. 1230 Stone Cathedral, Strasbourg: This group is on the tympanum of west portal of south transept. The present mechanism dates from 1842 and is especially attractive for the work of its automatons, which, every day at 12.30 pm, all start their show. prayer" (Schiller 1980, vol. On the top level of the clock are the Twelve Apostles who march before Christ, bowing to him. Whether you take the autoroute from Paris or Mulhouse, its silhouette with the single bell tower surmounted by a spire is visible from afar, heralding the next on-ramp to the Alsatian capital. Its mechanism stopped working one day in 1788 and it remained “mute” for several years until 1838 when the task of repairing it was entrusted to an Alsatian, Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776-1856). Christ blesses them and the rooster perched on the left tower flaps its wings while crowing three times (an allusion to Peter’s denial in the Gospels). At 132 metres high, the platform of the spire marks the end of the spire and the start of the peak. an especially holy death. Christian's good death.

For this reason, appeals to Mary also figured prominently in the Recognisable from afar thanks to its atypical allure, the Cathedral of Strasbourg is the undisputed emblem of the city, and at times of the whole of Alsace. The seven days of the week are indicated by deities in chariots: Apollo (Sunday), Diana (Monday), Mars (Tuesday), Mercury (Wednesday), Jupiter (Thursday), Venus (Friday), and Saturn (Saturday). To its left, there are 15th-century mural paintings.The presence of an organ is attested as early as year 1260. In her study of Marian iconography, Middle Ages, the story of Mary's death assumed new prominence in In 1399, Ulrich von Ensingen, the architect of the Cathedral in Ulm, supervised the building of the octagonal base of the spire which was completed after his death by Johannes Hültz from Köln and which soon became the symbol of Strasbourg.

is sometimes not in the picture. Free entry on the first Sunday of each month. He grew up in France and Germany and has also lived in Australia and England. . It is built in fir and is hung from the wall by a very large vertical oak beam down to the Samson's statue. More than 230 were destroyed. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Fifteenth-Century Studies At 32 metres in height, it is taller than that of Rouen (28m) but remains well below that of Metz (41.4m). 4, part 2, p. 133) to the Virgin Mary. It depicts the time when Geiler of Kaysersberg came to preach on this pulpit, accompanied by his dog. circa 1230, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg/Liebfrauenmünster zu Strassburg, A Daily Column on Painting by Lisa Towers and Bill Jones… very good site maintained by two working artists with grubby grubbies, Art and Faith, Too: A more general art site (started 06/10), Art and Faith: A site with primo Russian art images…, Voice Of Russia World Service… the world with a Russian "voice", Voices from Russia, Too: An image-driven "news" site, Voices from Russia: News and much more from Russia and other things with a Russian perspective. The Bishop thus had to recourse to indulgences in 1253 to finish the nave. Cathedral Platform: or "falling asleep") throughout the Byzantine church, and It's absolutely free, easy, and doesn't even need registration! This blog © French Moments, 2012-2020 • All Rights Reserved • Developed by. This thirteenth-century sculpture The Death of the Virgin, at the Strasbourg Cathedral in France illustrates Christ accepting the Virgin Mary's soul into heaven. According to a legend, the local authorities of Strasbourg ordered that the constructor of the Astronomic Clock should be blinded so that he could not try to build something like it ever again. Not surprisingly, these statues were the first to suffer the torments of the Revolution. 2. Project B is modelled on the façade of the Cathedral of Troyes (2 towers, 3 portals and a second storey with a central rose) and finished by clearly surpassing it in the new and opulent elaboration of gothic forms. not as having just died, but in the process of dying; and Christ himself

Christian death" (Daley 1998, p. 69).