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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, pronounced [ˌkœlnɐ ˈdoːm] ⓘ, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia belonging to the Catholic Church. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
Arnold Wolff (26 July 1932 – 24 December 2019) was a German architect. He was Cologne Cathedral Master Builder and head of the Dombauhütte of the Cologne Cathedral from 1972 to 1998. [1] From 1986 to 1997, he was academic teacher for restoration and conservation at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. [2]
The Cologne Cathedral Window is the stained glass window in the south transept of the Cologne Cathedral designed by Cologne artist Gerhard Richter. On a surface of 106 square metres, 11,263 glass squares in 72 colours of 9,6 cm × 9.6 cm were principally arranged randomly, with others selected in response to architectural context. [ 1 ]
Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802–1861) was an architect. He studied in Breslau and Berlin, and worked at the latter place under Karl Friedrich Schinkel. He was born at Jakobswalde [Kotlarnia] in Silesia in 1802. From 1833 he was the leading architect of Cologne Cathedral, which was to finally be completed. [1]
It passed into the church architecture of the Roman world and was adapted in different ways as a feature of cathedral architecture. [ 11 ] The earliest large churches, such as the cathedral of St John Lateran in Rome, consisted of a single-ended basilica with one apsidal end and a courtyard, or atrium , at the other end.
On 11 October 1991, the Cologne Tourist Office had a newly created model of the finial erected in front of the cathedral. [6] The concrete model of the southern finial on a scale of 1:1 was placed 50 metres in front of the west façade of the cathedral between the street Unter Fettenhennen and the Domplatte . The faithful sculpture demonstrates ...
Willy Weyres (31 December – 1903 – 18 May 1989) was a German architect and academic teacher. He was Kölner Dombaumeister [] from 1944 to 1972, diocesan master builder for the Archdiocese of Cologne for more than ten years, and full professor of architectural history and monument preservation at the RWTH Aachen from 1955 until his retirement in 1972.
With procedural models, the model complexity is no longer directly (i.e., linearly) related with the file size. The Procedural Cathedral, [1] a basic model of the Cologne Cathedral, contains 70 tracery windows, and a single window in highest resolution contains about 7 million triangles. These are "unfolded" from only 126 KB of GML code (18 KB ...