This is Munich's cathedral, officially known as the Dom zu unserer lieben Frau. Restoration works were underway on the façade so I couldn’t take a shot from the outside but I could take my fill of the inside.
Top shot shows the nave.
Bottom shot are chapels on one side of the building. I liked these and captured Christine playing with her mobile to give a sense of scale to the building.
This Gothic cathedral was completed around 1488. It still towers over the city and no new building is allowed to obstruct the view of the cathedral. The building was severely damaged at the end of the Second World War but restored in several phases.
One thing that caught my imagination when preparing some notes before I visited was ‘the footprint of the devil’. I looked for it all over the middle of the nave but couldn’t locate it. Others in our group said they did. According to a legend, the architect of the Frauenkirche, Jörg von Halsbach, promised the devil he could not see a window from the inside of the church if the devil helped him build the Frauenkirche. After he completed the building, the architect led the devil to the middle of the church from where not a single window could be seen, although all churchgoers could sit in an area where a lot of light came through the windows. The devil would have stamped his foot with so much rage that his footprint was visible in the stone floor.
Many thanks for looking and for the comments and fav's on yesterday's picture.
Great collage, gorgeous captures.
a lovely presentation dione