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Eight hundred years after the laying of its foundation stone, today the cathedral towers above the Elbe and the city as a landmark of Magdeburg, from whose medieval tangle of houses and streets it once rose to a dizzying height, its vastness incomparable among German cathedrals. A wealth of altars, relics and sculptures, as well as the colourfulness of the walls, rib vaulting and windows, then made the cathedral seem like a reflection of the heavenly Jerusalem. Reformation, wars and restoration have stripped Magdeburg cathedral of all that colourful medievalism, but they have lent it a lonely monumentality, even today, as a glistening mountain of stone.

  • Compact overview of Magdeburg’s landmark

Der Dom zu Magdeburg

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    A Paperback / softback by Giselher Quast, Jürgen Jerratsch

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      Publisher De Gruyter
      Published 20 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9783422800847
      978-3422800847
      ISBN-10 3422800840
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Eight hundred years after the laying of its foundation stone, today the cathedral towers above the Elbe and the city as a landmark of Magdeburg, from whose medieval tangle of houses and streets it once rose to a dizzying height, its vastness incomparable among German cathedrals. A wealth of altars, relics and sculptures, as well as the colourfulness of the walls, rib vaulting and windows, then made the cathedral seem like a reflection of the heavenly Jerusalem. Reformation, wars and restoration have stripped Magdeburg cathedral of all that colourful medievalism, but they have lent it a lonely monumentality, even today, as a glistening mountain of stone.

      • Compact overview of Magdeburg’s landmark

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