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La Cathédrale de Cologne
Series Architectures
Editor(s) of the series: Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
The "Architectures" series is dedicated to the most significant achievements. It places each monument in its historical and spatial context, focusing both outside and inside the building.
Director(s): Richard Copans
Scientific advisor(s): Sébastien Allard
Genre
Documentary
Length
26 minutes
Producer(s)
Richard Copans, Les Films d'Ici ; Catherine Derosier-Pouchous, Musée du Louvre
Co-producer(s)
Arte France
Begun in 1248, completed in 1880, it's one of the largest churches in the world, a masterpiece of Gothic art, but also a building that embodies, through the succession of works projects and interruptions (one lasted more than three centuries), the whole history of Germany, a symbol of its culture through the centuries. Since the thirteenth century, it is called "the mother and mistress of all churches of Germany.