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History and art, like architecture, broaden the horizons of Yunluo and Yan Shenyu, and enrich the hearts of Yunluo and Yan Shenyu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoEvery journey has brought Yunluo and Yan Shenyu a lot of unexpected gains.

It is a new interpretation of history, or a new understanding of architecture. It's time to let Yunluo and Yan Shenyu's stomach and taste buds enjoy the trip, and a rich dinner is naturally an essential treat.

Maybe Yunluo's friends won't come to this place when they travel to Germany independently, so Yunluo wants to show this seemingly unknown place in front of everyone's eyes. There are many bits and pieces in the city of Hannover that people in the city can be proud of, so Yunluo has seen these through travel, and this is the meaning of traveling here.

Before writing Cologne to himself and his friends, Yunluo sat quietly in front of the window, looking at the sunlight on the road and the branches and leaves of the poplar trees that were swaying in the wind. Comparing the port city of Hamburg, the fairytale town of Bremen and the old and modern Berlin in the previous days, what does Cologne look like?

How can Yunluo show a real and tangible Cologne in front of everyone? Looking at the photos of Cologne in the album, I firmly told myself that it was architecture, and for Cologne, the most reflective of the soul of this nation was architecture.

My mind goes back to the train from Hanover to Cologne that day, and the clouds fall on the Longlypla with a travel note. Longlypla is indeed a very helpful blue book for Yunluo and Yan Shenyu, not only to get a lot of travel information from it, Yunluo also has a habit.

It is to write down 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 books introduced; Yunluo's personal opinion on some of the landscapes in the city, and of course some of the places that he is not satisfied with.

Deutsche Bahn ICE854 was running from Berlin to Cologne, and Yunluo and Yan Shenyu boarded the train from the stopover station Hannover, where the higher speed of 199km/h was captured in the carriage. It was already 10 p.m. when we arrived in Cologne.

Cologne train station is in the city center and is fully equipped with modern facilities. Yunluo likes the luggage boxes at the German train station, which are generally charged by the hour or every few hours, and it is very convenient to store luggage at the train station several times for a few euros.

Just in time for the group stage period that is now the World Cup final. The railway station also actively created an atmosphere for this football event, with large posters and large TV box projection screens, attracting many passengers and fans to stop and enjoy and take pictures.

Yunluo muttered in the first sentence when he walked out of the train station: Where do you say Cologne Cathedral is? The companion replied, "You look up, and in the middle of the night a towering cloud reaches into the spire of the church in the darkness, and the clouds fall and you can't see the top, wow. It turns out that this long-awaited majestic Gothic church is right at the west exit of the train station.

appeared in front of Yunluo and Yan Shenyu so unexpectedly. Back at the hotel, I didn't say anything all night, hoping to get up early tomorrow morning to see the majesty of Cologne Cathedral again.

Cologne Cathedral, whether in books or on the Internet, is not clear in terms of architecture and history. One has to feel that this church, this magnificent building, is like a frozen verse. Touchable thoughts, shaped like cultures. It also carries the breath of history that has not disappeared.

Archaeological discoveries show that the original site of the church was an ordinary dwelling during the Roman occupation. From the end of the 4th century or the beginning of the 5th century AD, small-scale churches began to be built on this site.

The church was expanded and rebuilt until on 27 September 873, when an old church, the forerunner of today's Cologne Cathedral, was inaugurated and almost completely destroyed in a fire. The current Cologne Cathedral was built in 1248. It took more than 600 years until it was completed in 1880.

If it weren't for the retro style that swept Europe in the 19th century, this Gothic classic would never have been completed. Because of its 157-meter-high bell tower, it is also known as the closest church to God.

In addition to its own peculiar value and the artistic value it contains, it also shows the strength and endurance of European Catholicism. In 1942, during World War II, the British and American air forces bombed Germany. Cologne is located on the banks of the Rhine. Its downstream hinterland, which is home to a concentration of chemical industries, has become one of the hardest hit cities.

At the end of the war, the old town of Cologne was destroyed by ninety percent. However, thanks to a request from the German Catholic Church through the Holy See, the ancient church was saved from bombing. Although Cologne Cathedral was not destroyed, it was hit by more than a dozen Allied bombs, leaving some traces of damage.

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished at the peak and end of the Middle Ages. It is a Romanesque architectural successor to Renaissance architecture, originating in France in the 12th century and continuing until the 16th century, with pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying arches.

Particularly striking are the towering spires and the huge colourful glass paintings on the windows. In addition to Cologne Cathedral, the most famous Gothic buildings in the world include Notre-Dame Cathedral of Russia, Milan Cathedral in Italy, Westminster Abbey in England, and Notre Dame Cathedral in France.

Cologne Cathedral is the largest, it covers an area of 8,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 6,000 square meters and a length of 144 from east to west. 55 meters, 86 meters wide from north to south. At 25 meters, the area is equivalent to a football field. It is a building complex with two tallest towers as the main gate, and the interior is dominated by a cruciform plan, and the corridor of the general church.

Most of them are east-west three-entrance, and the north-south horizontal corridor intersects at the altar to form a cross, and Cologne Cathedral is a rare five-entry building, the internal space is high and wide, and the tall tower leads people's eyes to the sky. Its firmament, which symbolizes man's desire to communicate with God, began in 1864 when Cologne was raised by issuing a lottery to raise funds until its completion in 1880.

It is constantly being heightened and widened, and the buildings are all made of polished stone, a total of 160,000 tons of stone are built like stalagmites, and the whole project shares 400,000 tons of stone.

But seeing every towering little delicate minaret, graceful lines, gorgeous ceilings, the lines are so indescribably beautiful. Describe the beauty of architecture with graceful and graceful.

It is indeed a little unrealistic, but in Yunluo's eyes, more strokes are indispensable, less strokes are lacking, but the softness can exude an immeasurable power. It is difficult to use such a general term as a masterpiece to commend such an atmospheric architectural scene.

There are also several stone reliefs depicting the story of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Cologne Cathedral houses many valuable works of art and artifacts, including thousands of drawings of the cathedral of the time, and the parchment drawings used by the first architect Harder to design the church are still preserved.

It provides important information for the study of 13th-century architecture and decorative arts. There are also the bones of the three holy kings of the East who went from the East to worship the newborn Jesus, which were placed in a large golden carving box and placed on the altar. There is also the oldest giant Bible, the crucifixion that is larger than a human life, and countless exquisite stone carvings inside and outside the church.

There is also an 11th-century German Ottodian wood carving "Christ on the Cross", which became a forerunner of Gothic art and had a great influence on later generations of sculpture.

The four walls of the church have a total area of more than 10,000 square meters, and are fully equipped with stained glass depicting biblical characters, known as the French flame style, which makes the church more solemn. It is said that these pictures are so beautiful, but they are only available in 4 colors, and they are very elaborate: the golden --- represents a paradise shared by mankind.

It means light and eternity; The red ---- represents love; The blue --- represents faith; Green --- represents hope and the future. I don't know if this is true or not, but under the reflection of the sunlight, these glasses shimmer with golden light, and they are indeed a unique scenery in the church.

Every pillar and window is filled with more than 600 years of historical changes, and one sculpture after another records the essence of the most profound teachings of Christianity. In the music that sounded extremely pure and sacred, the originally impetuous mood was as calm as water in an instant.

Yunluo and Yan Shenyu walked through this renovated corridor and climbed the bell tower from the basement of the church. The 509-step bell tower offers the world's largest church bell and views of the Rhine and Cologne. Interestingly, since the completion of the church.

The city of Cologne has stipulated that all buildings in the city must not be taller than churches, resulting in the special phenomenon that many buildings in Cologne have only seven or eight floors above ground and as many as four or five floors underground.

Climb up the spiral staircase to the bell tower, the walls are covered with graffiti, mostly in various languages.

Walking to the church, there is a large observation deck, looking down, the whole of Cologne is in full view, and of course the most beautiful is the Rhine and the bridge, as well as the buildings near the riverbank.

Walking out of the church, I came to the side and found that the whole church was gray-brown, and half of the left tower (north tower) was silvery-white, and under the sunlight, one was bright and white, and the other was gray-headed and dirty, which looked distinct. It turned out that Cologne was the most important industrial base in Europe and the largest lignite production base in Germany.

The pantothenic acid air erodes every stone of the church, so the cathedral was built only more than 160 years ago, but due to the long-term pollution and corrosion of industrial exhaust gases and acid rain, the twin towers have changed from the original silver-white to black-brown.

In order to restore the original architectural style of the church, the local cultural relics department bathed the 157-meter-high twin towers with water from the Rhine River. Later, the Cologne City Council found out and decided to keep the polluted black-brown color of the twin towers in order to arouse the world's attention to environmental protection work and enhance people's awareness of environmental protection. (To be continued.) )

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