In images: documentation of current working on Cologne Cathedral
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Working at a dizzy height...
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....not suffering from vertigo and secured
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Inside Cathedral builder's hut:
sculptor Christoph Hoppe
cleaning the figure of Saint Pantaleon (located: northern tower pillar F1,
former brick seal)
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Inside Cathedral builder's hut:
plaster model of a gargoyle
in the shape of a witch (location of the completed gargoyle: northern nave aisle, pillar F 5)
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Figure of emperor Konstantin
bearing traces of weathering and
air pollution...
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...and shining in new splendour
(before back-spacing in its place
at western portal)
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Cleaning with dry ice
is the method chosen...
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...fighting "immortalizations"
of an ungentlemanly kind
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The bible stained-glass window
"Courting Rebecca" before restoration...
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...and thereafter |
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Gargoyle (in the shape of a monk)
of the 19th century, before...
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...and after cleaning, completion
and stabilisation (location: abutment H 8
of the southern transept)
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Inside the Cathedral builder's hut:
sculptor Sebastian Becker working on a gargoyle in the shape of the devil (location: pillar F 5 of the northern nave aisle)...
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..and chiseller Willi Bauer
working on a baldaquin with figures
made from sandstone originating
from Obernkirchen
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Detail from the altar of Agilolphus
(foot-washing: Christ washes Peter the feet) before restoration... |
...and again "as new" |
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picture credits: Dombauverwaltung Köln
A table with an exact breakdown of respective proportions of expenses the ZDV-family has been defraying since 1949 you may find here: <klick>
