How Cologne Cathedral was Illuminated Before Electricity | Blowing Up History
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- Blowing Up History investigates Europe’s masterpiece of gothic engineering, Cologne Cathedral, pulling apart its stones, tiles and pillars to explore the secrets of the medieval architects. Subscribe to Discovery TV for more great clips:
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WE PAID FOR THIS EXPLODED CGI AND SOUND LIBRARY AND GOD DAMMIT WE’RE GOING TO USE EVERY BIT OF IT.
What you mean propaganda, it's a documentary about a church
@Chi Funk
We already know.
@Chi Funk
I think the brainwashing goes to those who dwell in the occult. No, especially Catholic churches are for worshiping the one true God. I'd be happy to make an introduction if you are interested.
@Chi Funk You realize they did this same type of documentary for all types of different historical buildings not just this church right? idjit.
MDR 😂
the first time they did the 'exploded' animation i was impressed. the third time made me think this film should have been shorter instead.
that's exactly what I thought :D
lol
Well, it's discovery channel. Now that smoking is not fashionable anymore, the Marlboro man needs to narrate these stories for the general audience in the most sensationalist style. Same goes for animation. People with the IQ of a used camomile teabag and an attention span of a fruit fly need to be constantly re-stimulated again. A scan just through the interior? They immediately zap away...
and voice a bit less EEEEEPIC
cmon, the animators spent a couple of afternoons making that sequence, shame if they show it just once. annoying, yes, but effort is effort
When you have to write a 500 word essay so you repeat yourself 3 times.
Pathetic
500 words is nothing
500 words isn't hard though
What kind of teacher asks for a 500 word essay? I've been doing 1000 word essays since my first year of high school.
500 words? I once had a really strict teacher that had us do 750 words per paragraph, and an essay made of 11 paragraphs. She was my 7th grade teacher.
OMG THIS DRAMATIC MUSIC THE NARRATOR HAS TO SHOUT OVER IT AND THE LOUD SOUND EFFECTS
White privilege!
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Everyone thinks their documentary needs an Avengers soundtrack nowadays. It’s annoying.
@@mightymouse5930 Yep
@@eldebtor6973 wut
they used candles and windows. just saved you 7:30
Thank you mate!
or this th-cam.com/video/GhsVawlpRT0/w-d-xo.html
Or maybe it’s the use off windows to let light in
i'd turn up the animation sounds a bit more in the next documentation. they were quite hard to hear
R RQ Whoosh
R RQ Thats not how a whoosh works buddy.
@R RQ When someone makes a joke you don't point out the fact that they are joking. Leave Bob alone he did nothing wrong.
@R RQ Pointing out a joke totally ruins the whole premise of it. The joke is supposed to be self explanatory so pointing it out makes you seem like a real idiot. Also you need to chill out.
@R RQ you've been wooshed now sit dog, you've been trolled epic style
This is like hiring a metal band to play at a funeral
Couldn't have been said better!!
🙌👏👏👏
LOL🤣
That's what I've planned for my funeral :P
That'd be cool, within limits.
EXACTLYY
It did not answer how it was illuminated at night.
Satisfying you immediately: candles. A metric shit-ton of beeswax candles would be lit in every altar, every pillar base, and every wall. (This would be rare, of course, because normal medieval churches close around sunset and masses in the early morning are mostly, if not always, only celebrated in the countryside for the farmers who had to rise up early for work.)
EDIT: Satisfying you even more because I found this tweet that could illustrate what a medieval church only illuminated by candlelight would have looked like.
twitter.com/StAlphonsusFSSP/status/1074402185109217280?s=20
(The people there would have looked similar to back then, too. That's a plus.)
@@rin_etoware_2989 Thank you so much for that. You saved me from watching past 3 min of that awfully made video
Not satisfied. because the video did not include that. At least they should have shown the configuration of the candles inside the church, since the title is how the churches were illuminated before electricity.
Anyway thanks for your informative reply
Andrew Andora Happy to be of service.
Just to hammer home the point of how much work would have been done to illuminate a big church, here's old footage of St. Peter's in Rome lit by thousands of candles.
th-cam.com/video/DWWA97CsBek/w-d-xo.html
One important information is omitted: The Cathedral was unfinished for centuries. Although started in the 12th century, all construction stopped in the 15th century. Later on it almost fell into ruins. (Some time even being a stable for horses of the French army.)
It took more than 300 years, till 1843, until the construction was restarted. And then an other 40 years until finished. That's why the roof has beams made from iron instead of wood.
Heard in a documentary:
Sadly it's only a beautiful myth that it was spared on purpose in world war two.
Actually it was hit several times and that red steel frame and voluntary helpers extinguishing fires saved it.
Incorrect english, I know...
It didn't become a stable for napoleons horses because of its condition, but as an insult to the german population and a sign of napoleons continued war on the catholic church. Other than that i approve your comment.
@@user-bj2lu9qt3o the Richterfenster (richters' window) is where the dom was hit the hardest by a bomb, which is why that portion had to be redesigned (with that awfull modern technology hype of 20 years ago)
Aaaaand they destroyed the city as they tried to demolish the old cathedral
This building is the remain of the Tartarian Empire, this kind of architecture is all over the world, few of them survived but mostly distroyed by freemason to cover up the true history
Not even Allied bombing blew it up, and this video did it twice in two minutes.
Thrice*
Your comment is humorous
Or a tank duel.
No seriously, there was a real tank duel filmed.
@@classifiedad1 yes ikr
Do we really need the Marvel superhero music in the background??
Epic music for an epic building. I am an atheist and think the Cologne Cathedral is awesome.
Gammareign Being an atheist has nothing in the slightest to do with liking the look of a building.
@@dalvik4162 right
James Foreman yes
Yep
The sound FX should be a bit louder, you can still recognize the narrator
"The towers rest on thick stone pillars to stop them from collapsing"
Well no shit. What did you think they are there for? Moral support?
Stolen from Full Metal Jacket!😁
@ Wes McCauley, best comment of the lot 🤣🤣🤣
7 mins just to say "Giant Stained Glass windows"
JustMixedIn thank you
Eh, I found it interesting but maybe a bit too spread thin
I only watched a few videos of noter dame burning and now my whole feed is full of churches and cathedrals.
Talk about troll nightmare xd
NOTRE ....
The good thing of that is seeing how overated Notre Dame is. Not even in my top 5 moxt impressive gothic cathedrals.. but you now, the one of Paris will always get all the attention. If the others burn, most media would just ignore it
These churches are addictive aren't they.
windstorm1000 just like meth
I'm really sure the editor of this video wanted to work in a Transformers movie. The loud and dramatic sound effects I can't barely hear what they are saying and the video cuts repeated again and again.
The narrator ask the question, then mumbles into nothing and never answer it. A MESS.
HAHAHAHAHA!
It would have been nice to see more of the real building rather than all that computer generated crap.
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@nanda erdhani There's always one. The CG shows nothing of how the cathedral was built. The exploding outwards bears no relation to the construction techniques and stone masonry required to erect this strructure and it is constantly repeated. It looks shit and is accompanied by shit sound effects. If you think it was good, useful and related to how the structure was actually built? Well then you're an idiot. It was a cheap, gimmicky time filler
They aren’t to prone for allowing films/pictures taking place in the cathedral
@@gorefinger845 How exactly? I didn't say anything complicated or highbrow! Or maybe it was just a bit beyond you
@@hydorah The buttress explanation was decent I must admit. The stained glass explanation was nice as well.
I live in cologne and no matter how mamy times I set foot in this cathedral it always manages to take my breath out of me you can only experience its sheer size if you see it for yourself
I'm not even christian, but this building is just mind blowing! I love gothic architecture so much.
It's part of the Christian architecture
@@markarete6469no Muslim architecture
its likely another massive building from the Tartarian Empire, many of these old world buildings get destroyed to erase history
@@xSLIMxSHADYx I hope you're being sarcastic LMAO
@@EricNoneless we don’t build like this anymore, ever wonder why? it’s because we can’t do it.
Having visited the Köln, I can attest to the fact that this is a structure that shows how small you are.
The other is the Milan Cathedral but it occupies more Land area & isn't as tall & dark.
Es preciosa las dos torres ze
-se precen a la catedral de Burgos España
Kenneth McCormick "Köln" is actually the name of the city in german. The Cathedral us called "Dom"
"...this is a structure that shows how small you are."
You've nailed it. I recomment to everyone to visit the Cologne Cathedral. It touches you!
I live nearby (all my life) and it get's me EVERYTIME I stand in front of it.
See it from outside - so impressive!
Go upstairs, to the highest top (Many stairs! But an exciting challenge!) - highly impressive
because it's narrow and there are many openings, you can feel the wind, see the people like ants...
See the golden coffin of the 3 holy kings.
On some occasions you can hear the sound of the big bell called "Dicke Pitter" (Fat Peter).
And most beautiful in wintertime: The Christmasmarket.
Why do you always take the wrong word in english when borrowing german names? A Stein is a stone, a Steinkrug is a pitcher (Krug)made of stone. The Kölner Dom is colognes' cathedral, where Köln is the actual name of the city cologne and Dom means cathedral.
@Ireland Forever They didn't rape them. They enriched them.
I've been to Cologne Cathedral. I can say without reservation that it is easily one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I recommend anyone traveling to Germany make the time to go see it. Even if Cologne isn't a stop in your plans, the train station is right by it. So if you take the train through there, you can easily break the trip up so that you have a couple of hours to see it.
As a modern person even, when I first walked through the doors I was awestruck. All I could think was what it must have been like to see it two or three hundred years ago when there was no such thing as skyscrapers or airplanes, much less space travel. To any pilgrim visiting, there would be no denying that they were in the house of god.
It's tartarian much older then 1200s it was Inherited from past civilization
" House of God " !
I actually found it quite hard to hear the music over the narrators voice how about turning it up a bit more
the sound effects and loudness of the 'background' music make it unwatchable after a while
The background is that I found no tomorrow you have set ! Oh how I wish you could.
Pretty weak sauce. No talk about the clerestory or anything that actually had to do with the rather ingenious lighting design. But we got to see that 3D model pull itself apart oh, 3 or 4 times. Meh.
sauce?
All Handmade. Damn, imagine how much would that cost today.
*Even Scrooge McDuck cant Build this with his Money !*
Well if you are one of the electorades of the holy roman emperor and take 10% of everything earned in the wealthiest city of europe, the most important trading center in mainland europe, part of the hanseatic league, having the staple right for all goods transported from west to east crossing colognes longitude in the empire, the biggest fortification of europe and the biggest pilgrims destination of medieval europe, then you can afford to pursue some insane ideas (though even this formerly richest city of western europe ran out of fonds eventually after 3 centuries, halting construction till the prussians forced us to complete it in the 19th century)
I've read that it would cost 10 billion€ to rebuilt it today. (to compare: The Jeddah Tower, the tallest building on earth will proximity 1billion)
The facade and towers were built in the late 1800's. The video did not point this out. The construction techniques even a hundred years ago were so much more mechanical that a certain harshness is apparent. The rear of the church was built using the "machines" of the Middle Ages and has a less harsh appearance. I agree with everyone else about the background music. Also, the video did not talk about the candles, assuming there was something innovative about that.
I honestly miss building this amount of detail......
Ancient cathedrals may be an under-appreciated asset. Obviously very important for tourism. Maybe should be protected like airports?
I am still amazed that this amazing structure survived Allied bombing during WWII. I was lucky enough to have worked 6 months in Bonn, so every time we would visit Koln, the train station was literally right next door. If you ever visit the NRW, be sure to visit this cathedral. The Dom rules.
I have been inside this Beautiful Cathedral and it took my breath away. This will have to be well protected
How could they possibly build such a complicated and beautiful structure with not so much advanced building technology in ancient time ? That's why I am so sad to see the Notre dame de Paris accidentally got burnt a few days ago, I hope they will rebuild it fast and this Church will stay many more hundred years , they are the statement how amazing the Human brains are in creating magnificent buildings like that !
Go to paul cook for more info
yes "accidentally".......come on man. Wake up.
Because they didn't!!
The cathedral is a power station it connects to the ionisphere and uses mercury to create a torus field the windows didnt originally have glass in them
The graphics and sound effects really distract from actually wanting to learn about this.
The engineers and architects would have had no experience to fall back on with this building as it had not been done before , it is incredible that this building even exists and also survived WW2 .
there were literally thousands of yathedrals built in europe, and the wokers were experts, often traveling the continent from one construction site to the next, o learn and later to work. Far from 'no experience'
Didn't know the cathedral of my home town was THAT epic
lazy...
The taller the buildings, the more energy it was extracting
This is ridiculously over the top. :D
THIS CATHEDRAL IS NOW THE ULTIMATE POWER IN THE UNIVERSE!!!
(apart from that little ventilation shaft)
*star wars noises*
@Ava Van Elis let's just say that's not a small moon.🙄
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
Ja jot...kommt noch jemand hier aus Köln?
Hier geboren und hier werd ich begraben.
Türken und Arabis
Aus Köln und Moin gesagt?
Cultural Appropriation!!!
Lass das Moin für die Norddeutschen.
SC Privat wahre Worte eigentlich echt traurig dass eigentlich keiner unter 30 mehr wirklich Kölsch kann...
Gebürtiger Kölner aber inzwischen stolzer Düsseldorfer. Landeshauptstadt olé! Kniet nieder ihr Knechte... und Kölsch hört sich übrigens nicht nur abscheulich an, es schmeckt auch so.
GOD DAMMIT, would you please NOT MAKE THE MUSIC LOUDER THAN THE VOICE OF THE NARRATOR?!?!?!?
"music"?
I like how no modern buildings can top the cathedral.
i'm pretty sure technology has only progressed since then.
only, no one can be bothered building massive and voluminous cathedrals anymore, when work and living space is at such a premium these days.
@@rin_etoware_2989 Yet these buildings draw in countless tourism despite modern "tourist draws" looking like trash heaps.
The argument that they just had space to waste is silly given how much vacant room we have today that is squandered on projects that don't bring in 1/10 the amount of people as these historic buildings.
I'd love to see a single building from the last 100 years in any country compare to these works of art.
And they'll never will
“Cologne Cathedral is an iconic and amazing feat of engineering... but where, are the restrooms?”
*EXPLODING CATHEDRAL ANIMATION SUPERMAN MUSIC*
Maybe these ancient cathedrals should have their own fire brigades like airports?
Domfeuerwehr
I love the "fractal-like" building style of past times.
I have been here such a beautiful and big structure, the organ alone inside is impressive and the crypts.
Even more spectacular is the animation of building. You got some great 3D masters in your team.
"Must have been amazing for people entering the cathedran in medieval times"
The cathedral only was a huge ruin in medieval times though...
Not so much a ruin, as an unfinished building. The Choir was more or less finished already, though, and sealed off with a temporary wall.
I was working in the glas workshop for a while
The dissection of the cathedral was such a mindblowing graphic.. Such editing!!!
When I was an Interior designer student, like 20 years ago; we had to do these presentations with the given subject in architecture style. I got the Gothic and BOY! I got so immersed in it... I studied every little detail of all the names of the parts of architectures such as ornaments and column and archs techniques used in the comstrictions of such buildings.
Every time I see Gothic cathedrals being explained I say the names of each type of column or window or arch or ornament as the narrator says along... in that time I had to go to the library and make research on books and copy them to present them as illustrations. I was impressed of the amount of details and intricacy those buildings had. Amazing indeed!
(Arbotantes, arcos de ojiva, rosetones, gárgolas, pináculos punta de aguja, planos de los diferentes tipos de cruces eclesiásticas y sus propósitos, los atrios, la flor de Liz... simplemente fascinante.
Let's hope it doesn't end up like Notre Dame.
They ain't using wood so all good LOL
Using candles and torches for lighting in the olden days must have lead to a lot of structures burning down.Theatres and opera houses were notorious for suffering this fate many times over.
Been to this place. It was absolutely breathtaking.
Those buildings and sculptures everything is amazing
I've seen this both from the inside and outside (and the one in Paris, and Milan, and Florence). I love Gothic cathedrals/churches. Even the church in the village I'm from, 15th century Gothic (and obviously a lot simpler than this one).
This Cathedral is so beautiful
Looks like it came from the heavens
I live like a 30min drive from it. I walk by it almost like once a week.
the cathedral got its black color from smoke from all the burning buildings when cologne was fire bombed during ww2. The cathedral was finished in the 1870s. It took over 600 years to build. And the crane used to hoist the stones was built in the 1300 or 1400s. It stood on top of one of the unfinished towers for over 500 years, and was used to finish the cathedral in the 1870s. The only reason why the cathedral stands today, is because it was used as a navigation landmark for allied pilots.
lol
The outside of the Cathedral is not made of black material, nor is it just dirty, instead, the sandstone which most of the building is made from reacts with the sulphuric acid in rain and turns dark grey, giving the Cathedral its distinctive dark colour over time. This is why repaired sections look much whiter and lighter than the rest of the building, although in time they will darken to match the older stone.
"the cathedral got its black color from smoke from all the burning buildings" - that would mean that no limestone building which was never affected by smoke from other buildings burning would have developed a darkened exterior.
Try atmospheric reactions - and pollution from vehicles, particularly diesel pollution.
"The only reason why the cathedral stands today, is because it was used as a navigation landmark for allied pilots" - do you really think that aircraft bombing could have destroyed so much of that giant stone structure that it would never have been rebuilt, or that bomber pilots or their commanders would have chosen to use bombs to cause such destruction instead of bombing other targets in and around the city?
I have always been a fan of beautiful buildings,this is amazing
Ahh yes. Cologne Cathedral. Under construction since 1248 and it will probably never be finished. It's still an amazing building so thats fine😆
Kira Catastic reminds me of Sagrada Familia... what’s with churches and taking such a long time to construct?😂
It was actually finished but the allies threw 14 bombs at it and now it has to be restored
@@Sbjweyk That's not the issue. It's just that it is so large and complex that is continuously deteriorating and needs to be restored all the time.
no1DdC that’s right but the damage from the war and the smut is disintegrating the rock faster than usual
Well I sure hope they don't finish it anytime soon, because then the world will end (as it is said here 😂)
Marvelous beautiful huge building! Amazing experience to be able to visit and climb in 2005 due to a illustrated drawing years before.
I'm glad that so much of lost civilization architecture has survived after all!!
@@SL-pn6qb fake news, germany is a conspiracy created by the dutch to hide their war crimes.
Jk
medieval building still standing this perfectly wow nice. People back then were far more advanced in many things, we think they ate rocks but these people were highly intelligent.
the Tartarians built such majestic structures. sad thing is when a people inherit them and try to pass it off as their own.
you are pathetic
@@angelabby2379 abby you have alot of faith in people who lie 70% of the time. all in all you are entitled to your opinion of course. academia lies way to much for me to believe anything they say. but you do you abby by all means.
@@SP4CE.4RC you are not right in the head or just have low iq
@@angelabby2379 why because i question the status quo. because i find it hard to believe that barbaric humans were capable of building something so awesome? or because i question academia? regardless sorry you feel that way. but like i said you are entitled to your opinion its a free speech country. you believe the narrative if its what helps you sleep better at night. you do you
@@SP4CE.4RC I'm glad you think it's awesome... because they created it! unlike your failure kind who can't make anything except eating off ground
Whoever did the graphics on this has got a hell of a future, holy shit.
Definitely still amazing. Hope she'll be preserved for all the years to come.
The fucking music is so overdone
They sell pretty good schnitzel right next to the cathedral.
😂
I stopped to tour the Kolner Dom when I visited Koln in 1990...Impressive Gothic structure!
I would definitely watch a documentary like this...
AMAZING!!!!
It makes you wonder how they built like that back then? no cranes no heavy machinery .. look at how this was constructed
They did have cranes :) c8.alamy.com/compde/dgmk3d/historische-gravur-kolner-dom-mit-einem-kran-durch-wilhelm-von-abbema-1824-eingraviert-in-stahl-von-carl-mayer-kunst-dgmk3d.jpg
Definitely not built by humans
I’ve never seen anything quite like this before. It’s completely astounding , sends chills up my spine and I really want to see it. Also, I appear to have a great-great grand parent (or so) from French Cologne - being that our name is Andre.
The animation is awesome!
It's a total mystery how anything has ever been built. We may never know how structures pop into existence!
Love of God and his blessings. Today's Atheist Europe will never built such thing
How to build a church in *MINCRAFT 101*
Always in every place and time there are far sighted genius people whose work is futuristic relative to the era they live in.
This would have been a lot better with no music.
They partied all night with glow sticks. 🎉
so these people really don't know it remained unfinnished until the 19.th century?
The background music is too loud at spots so we can't hear the narrator.
Wow! This video awesome! From the naration down to the music i love it!
wow that is AWESOME i wonder if builders can copy the same as builders did back then 😁
Of course they can. Take so more niggas, get the flogging going and you got yourself a nice copy in no time.
well, there is a 1km+ building that is being constructed in Dubai
Marry me, Lisa ♡♡♡♡♡
awwessssome video thanks for this one
The music made it very epic I have to say. Good job
"Villain's hideout can be at anywhere"
Villain's hideout:
DIVINE architecture. Can't imagine men getting to creature this BEAUTY without the supporting hand of God. This is impressive even today and not sure if with all the technology and knowledge we would be able to reach this level of achievement and perfection imagine how a common man or any sort of men those days would feel entering this environment. It would definitely be like entering another dimension closer to God. All the Glory to God ❤️🙏
"can't imagine" - there it is. You provided your own answer.
What's even more impressive is how God can change the human heart , no cathedrals required... I understand what you are saying but God is not about outward appearances He's about whats inside 🙏
"We paid thousands for that animation Charlie, please don't tell me you can't make it fit a couple of times more..."
"It's a 7:30 Ralph, are you sure?"
"... Thousands Charlie, thousands"
LOL I kind of think that you're right Flashpoint
The loud sound effects is annoying and hurts my ears
Less music, less cgi,
less is more!
Here these many years of building finally payed of. I’d like to be able to say the same thing about Berlin‘s new airport BER...
I was there it is epic
Regardless the film's setting , the structure is a historic landmark. And wonderful .
So y’all believe that whomever built this had not figured out your little electricity yet???
Fantastic, jus keep it from fire like Notre Dame in Paris!
The sound effects literally deafen what the person is saying like wtf
Actually there were 2 of these big Church. But one was destroyed during the world war which is sad actually.
It should be mentioned that the stained glass was removed during WWII to protect them from the bombing raids. After the war there was a man who had headed up the project to put the stain glass back, but he objected to it being done. So plain glass was left in place until he had died. As you can see, the original stained glass is being put back in place. I was to the cathedral back in 1989 while the plain glass was still in place. It would be nice to go back and see the original glass back in place.
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City is a "mini" Cologne Cathedral.
Yes. It is lighter too. A daintier. Energy.
So it was illuminated how? By sunlight and moonlight and big windows?
A beautiful place I’d love to see in person.
I hope they do one like this with the one in Mexico in Zamora, Michoacán. It's called "El Santuario de Guadalupe".