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Cologne Cathedral

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Cologne Cathedral, Germany, bearing the tallest paired spires in the world.
Salisbury Cathedral from the east. 1220-1380. An essay in Early English Gothic with the tallest spire in England.

 


In Germany the impact of all phases of French Gothic architecture was decisive, from the early Gothic four-story elevation of the Cathedral of Limburg-an-der-Lahn (1225?) to the choir of Cologne Cathedral (begun 1248).

See also: Architecture, Cathedral, Cathedra, Church, Roman

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