Cathedral our lady of Strasbourg

With more than 4 million visitors a year, the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Strasbourg is the second cathedral the most visited by France after Notre-Dame-de-Paris and his(her,its) 12 million visitors, and well before those of Reims and Chartres.

For a very good reason: former(old) of several centuries, the first stones of which date 1015, and the current aspect of 1439, her(it) is the highest 2nd cathedral of France after Rouen, with her(its) 142m. Victor Hugo told it to be a " miracle of the gigantic and the delicate ". His(her,its) architecture is as well remarkable from the outside, with its numerous sculptures, its detailed portals(gates) and its unique(only) bell tower, as inside, with a rosette of 12m of diameter, its famous Pillar of the Angels and its crypt of the XIth century.

She(It) also welcomes a magnificent astronomical clock.

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The character is represented up under an arch and occupies almost all the space of the lancet. The head is taken on an aura a nimbus which symbolizes traditionally the holiness. On the arch above the head a registration reveals the identity of the character: +IOANNES-APOSTOLUS-ET-EWANGELISTA (Jean, apostle and evangelist). He is dressed in the classic art and concerns the Roman toga a tunic.
Of the left hand he blesses and the right he holds an unwound parchment scroll on which we can read the first verse of its Gospel: IN FIRSTLY ERAT VERBUM and VERBUM ERAT APUD DEUM and DEUS ERAT VERBUM (At first was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God) Jn. 1,1 Thanks to the technique of the stained-glass window, the light gets through the characters. Saint Jean also says

These windows were realized in series by corporations, of the Gothic time till the end of the Middle Ages, according to the construction of the Cathedral. They obey a program of set given by the clerks. A privileged situation even there, because, in most of the buildings, stained-glass windows having been offered one by one by leading figures, are generally ill-assorted.

Both stained-glass windows of Byzantine style

The oldest Romanic stained-glass windows are situated on both sides by the choir of the Cathedral. Both stained-glass windows of the left transept the North are of Byzantine style. One of them represents both saints Jean. We notice that these characters are flat and without expression. Over the saints, the Virgin is represented in prayer, this is a very rare theme.

The Astronomical Clock, the masterpiece of the Renaissance, is the product of a collaboration between artists, mathematicians and technicians. Swiss watchmakers, sculptors, painters and creators of automatons worked together. The current mechanism dates 1842.
The Clock attracts especially by the game of its automatons. The complete game of automatons is every day, at noon thirty.

A first clock, called "of three kings" was placed in 1354 in front of the current. She had a dozen meters high and contained a statue of the Virgin before which the Three Kings came to bow every hour in the sound of a carillon. A cock already beat wings and sang. He is still visible to the palace Rohan, to the Museum of the decorative arts in the room of clocks and his mechanism is visible. She stopped working by the beginning of the 16th century. 

The second clock was housing start in 1547. Actually, she was realized only in 1571 in the current location. It is necessary to quote the mathematicians Conrad Dasypodius and David Volkenstein, the watchmakers Josias and Isaac Habrecht, the painter Tobias Stimmer. The buffet and the main part of the decorations are the ones that.

Here is the statue, Gothic in stoneware of saint Jean-Baptiste in the entrance(entry) of the chapel saint-Catherine, in the quoted(esteemed) bottom(stocking) the South of the nave.

Here is a small biography on the photo: son(sons,thread) de Zachavie and of Elisabeth the cousin of Marie, John the Baptist. Clergyman judée of the time(weather) of Jesus was he is the Prophet who has annoce come from Jesus and indicated(appointed) him(it) as the lamb of God who removes the peche of the world

Here is the photo of statues in the entrance(entry) of the chapel saint-Catherine to the quoted(esteemed) bottom(stocking) the South of the nave.

A rosette is before anything else a symmetric geometrical figure having more or less the shape of a rose or a star.

She(It) is built in a circle from a central point and trained(formed) by curves.

This shape calling on(appealing) to the mathematics is present in architecture, in decoration, in sewing, joinery(joiner's workshop), etc. …

The rosette is used in many religions for centuries.

We find in the Christian buildings, but also in the mosques there or in representation in the mandala Indian.

Here is the room or Christian reunisent to make their prayer and to come to listen to the discour of the pope. The pope as he speaks a lot and that the people want that the pope arette they have put a dog has quotation of the pope and when the dog fall asleep the pope has to arette speak here is the new technique so that the pope shrunk sound discour*

The Cathedral of our lady of Strasbourg; a Catholic Cathedral is constructed Roman,has Strasbourg his style is Gothic.It is the highest second Cathedral of the world after that of Rouen.She was built in 1176 and of construction is in 1439.