The Cathedral That Took Six Centuries
In 1248, Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden laid the foundation stone for a new cathedral in Cologne, Germany. The design was breathtaking — twin spires reaching...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16.
In 1248, Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden laid the foundation stone for a new cathedral in Cologne, Germany. The design was breathtaking — twin spires reaching higher than anything Europe had ever seen. Konrad knew he would never see it finished. Neither would his children, nor their children after them. Construction continued for three hundred years, then stopped entirely in 1560.…
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