History and art are like architecture, broadening the horizons of Yunluo and Yan Chenyu and filling the hearts of Yunluo and Yan Chenyu. Every journey brings Yunluo and Yan Chenyu a lot of unexpected gains.

Either a new interpretation of history or a new understanding of architecture. It should be a time for Yunluo and Yan Chenyu's stomach and taste buds to enjoy the travel. A rich dinner is naturally an indispensable enjoyment.

Maybe Yunluo’s friends would not come to this place when they traveled to Germany freely, so Yunluo even showed this seemingly unknown place before everyone’s eyes. Many of the things in Hannover are worthy of their pride in the city. Yunluo saw these through travel, which is the meaning of traveling here.

Before writing Cologne to himself and his friends, Yun Luo sat quietly in front of the window, watching the sunshine sprinkled on the road and the branches and leaves of poplar trees swinging by the wind. Comparing the port city Hamburg, the fairy tale town of Bremen and the ancient and modern Berlin in the previous few days, what is Cologne like?

How can Yunluo present a real and tangible Cologne in front of everyone? Looking at the photos of Cologne in the album, he told himself confidently that it is an architecture. For Cologne, the architecture that best reflects the soul of this nation is still the one that reflects the soul of this nation.

My thoughts returned to the train departing from Hannover to Cologne that day. Yunluo wrote a travel note on longlypla. Longlypla is indeed a blue treasure book that is very helpful to Yunluo and Yan Chenyu. Not only can I get a lot of travel information from it, Yunluo also has a habit.

It is to write the specific feelings of each place next to the corresponding introduction text of the book. For example, whether the hotels and restaurants selected by Yunluo are as satisfactory as the introduction in the book; Yunluo’s personal views on some landscapes in the city, and of course some unsatisfactory places.

The DR ICE854th time was from Berlin to Cologne. Yun Luo and Yan Chenyu got on the bus from Hanover, and they captured the car's higher driving speed of 199km/h in the car. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening when they arrived in Cologne.

Cologne Railway Station is in the city center and has complete modern facilities. Yunluo likes the storage boxes of German railway stations. Generally, it is charged at an hour or a few hours. It can be stored at the railway station several times, and it costs a few euros, which is very convenient.

It is just in time for the group stage of the World Cup finals. The railway station is also actively creating an atmosphere for this football event. Large posters and TV boxes project large screens have attracted many tourists and fans to stop and enjoy and take photos as souvenirs.

Yunluo walked out of the railway station and muttered: Where are you talking about Cologne Cathedral? His companion replied, "Look up, in the evening, a tall clouds penetrated into the spire of the church in the dark. Yunluo really couldn't see the top. Wow. It turned out that this long-awaited majestic Gothic church is at the west exit of the railway station.

He appeared unexpectedly in front of Yunluo and Yan Chenyu. When he returned to the hotel, he had nothing to say all night. He hoped that he would get up early tomorrow to see the majestic posture of Cologne Cathedral again.

The Cologne Cathedral, both in books and on the Internet, cannot be explained clearly in a few words in a single word. It has to be felt that this church, this magnificent building, is like a solidified poem, a touchable thought, a shaped culture, and it also carries an undisappeared historical atmosphere.

Archaeological discovery that the original site of the church was an ordinary house during the occupation of the Roman Empire. From the end of the 4th or the early 5th century AD, small-scale churches began to be built on this location.

The church was continuously expanded and renovated until the official completion of an old church on September 27, 873, which is the predecessor of today's Cologne Cathedral, which was almost destroyed in a fire. The current Cologne Cathedral was built in 1248. It took more than 600 years until its completion in 1880.

If the retro style of the 19th century swept across Europe, this Gothic classic would probably never be completed. Because it has a 157-meter-high bell tower, it is also called the church closest to God.

In addition to its own unique value and the artistic value it contains, it also expresses the power and endurance of European Catholicism. During World War II in 1942, the United Kingdom and the United States bombed Germany. Cologne was located on the banks of the Rhine River. Its downstream hinterland was a concentration area of ​​chemical industry and became one of the cities with the worst bombings.

At the end of the war, the old city of Cologne was destroyed by 90%. However, the ancient church was spared from bombing due to the request of the German Catholic Church through the Roman Catholic Church. Although the Cologne Cathedral was not destroyed, it was also hit by more than ten Allied bombs, leaving some broken marks.

Speaking of Gothic architecture, it is an architectural style that flourished at the peaks and ends of the Middle Ages. It developed from Romanesque architecture and was inherited by Renaissance architecture. It originated in France in the 12th century and lasted until the 16th century. Its architectural features include pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying arches.

What is particularly noticeable is the towering steeple and the huge and colorful glass paintings on the windows. In addition to the Cathedral of Cologne, the most famous Gothic buildings in the world include the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Russia, the Cathedral of Milan in Italy, the Cathedral of Westminster in the United Kingdom, and Notre Dame in Paris, France.

The Cologne Cathedral is so large that it covers an area of ​​8,000 square meters, with a construction area of ​​about 6,000 square meters, 144.55 meters from east to west and 86.25 meters from north to south, and an area equivalent to a football field. It is a building complex with two tallest towers as the main doors, with a cross-shaped plane as the main body, and a general church corridor.

Most of them are three-way east-west, and cross the holy corridors with north-south directions at the altar to form a cross. The Cologne Cathedral is a rare five-way building with high and widening interior space. The tower leads people's sight to the sky. Its sky symbolizes the desire for people to communicate with God. Its sky has been issued to Cologne in 1864 to raise funds to its completion in 1880.

It is constantly being raised and widened, and the buildings are all made of polished stones, with a total of 160,000 tons of stone built like stalagmites. The entire project uses 400,000 tons of stone.

But every towering small and exquisite spire, with beautiful lines and gorgeous ceilings, is so difficult to describe the beauty of architecture with gracefulness.

It is indeed a bit unrealistic, but in Yunluo's eyes, one more is indispensable and one less is lacking, but it can exude an immeasurable force in the softness. Using a generalized word like a masterpiece is probably difficult to commend such an atmospheric architectural scene.

There are several stone reliefs in the church, depicting the story of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. The Cologne Cathedral contains many precious works of art and artifacts, including thousands of design drawings of the cathedral at that time, and the sheepskin drawings used by the first architect Hard when he designed the church.

It provides important information for the study of 13th-century architecture and decorative art. There are also the corpses of the Three Holy Kings of the East who worshipped the newborn Jesus from the East, which were placed in a large golden carving box and placed on the altar. There are also the ancient giant Bible, the Cross of the Passion of Jesus, which is larger than the real person, and countless exquisite stone sculptures inside and outside the church.

There is also a wood carving "Christ on the Cross" from the Otto dynasty of Germany in the 11th century, which became the pioneer of Gothic art and had a significant impact on later generations of carvings.

The total area of ​​the four-wall windows of the church is more than 10,000 square meters. It is equipped with stained glass depicting biblical characters. It is called the French flame style, making the church look more solemn. It is said that these pictures are so beautiful, but only use four colors, and are very particular: gold - means that humans have a paradise.

It means light and eternity; red-represents love; blue-represents faith; green-represents hope and future. I don’t know if this is true, but under the reflection of the sun, these glasses are shining and colorful, which is indeed a unique landscape in the church.

Every pillar and every window are filled with historical changes over 600 years, and sculptures after sculptures record the most profound and profound doctrine of Christianity. In the sound of extremely pure and sacred music, the originally impetuous mood was as calm as water in an instant.

Yunluo and Yan Chenyu walked through this repaired corridor and climbed the clock tower from the basement of the church. The church bell tower has 509 steps, where you can see the world's largest church bell, and enjoy the water of the Rhine River and the magnificent cityscape of Cologne. What's interesting is that since the church was completed.

The Cologne Municipal Government stipulates that all buildings in the city must not be higher than churches, resulting in the special phenomenon of the buildings on the ground in many buildings in Cologne being only seven or eight floors, but four or five floors underground.

I climbed up the bell tower along the rotating stairs, and the walls were covered with graffiti, mostly in various languages ​​for visiting this place.

When you walk to the church, there is a large observation deck. Looking down, you will have a glimpse of the entire Cologne. Of course, the most beautiful thing is the Rhine River, the bridge, and the buildings near the river bank.

When I walked out of the church, I came to the side and found that the entire church was gray-brown. The left tower (north tower) was half silver-white. Under the sunlight, one was bright and white, and the other was covered in dust, which looked clear. It turned out that Cologne was the most important industrial base in Europe and the largest lignite production base in Germany.

Pantothenic air erodes every stone of the church, so the cathedral has only been built for more than 160 years. However, due to long-term pollution and corrosion by industrial waste gas and acid rain, the double towers have changed from silver white to black brown.
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