local traditionalists it was used to preserve the cathedral structural integrity steel helps protect against fire and wood worms. but more importantly industrial age technology enabled the cathedral construction to be swiftly completed last american engineers are said to have learned a lot here for later use in the construction of skyscrapers but it was the local population who benefited most. it was also a job creation scheme for current workers and one of the cathedral was always a project by and for the local community and in the nineteenth century especially there was a very close connection between the community and the cathedral. when the cathedral was finished it was the tallest building in the world a powerful symbol but there was a price to be paid. the price depression s used the cathedral to advance their own
cathedral organ was destroyed. in order nine hundred forty three a bomb tore a massive hole in the north tower there were concerns that the tower might collapse so despite the water on complications the hole was bricked up partly by forced labors. after the war cologne was virtually unrecognizable only forty thousand people still lived among the ruins. that kind could include loughner as proud city and the oldest in germany was no more but the fact that the cathedral was still standing may have given people hope they saw that the cathedral had survived and they might chew so they stayed put the logical thing to do would be to leave there was nothing left here so i think the cathedral really did give strength and encouragement to the people of cologne. in
all of us angry of course so we re trying to find new ways to protect the cathedral or is it does it once you want to believe just couldn t wouldn t want to show it. says the waiver of sexual assaults in cologne on new year s eve twenty fifteen there have been calls for tougher security measures at the cathedral these include a fence around the entire building like the one on the south side that stops people you re an icing on the wall but many cologne residents don t like the idea of putting barriers around their. vendettas when those in cross station and dirt are removed you can see some beautiful workmanship all the wonderful stone carvings and sculptures from the
activists like a magnet. when you lose a few novich visited the cathedral for the first time with her family she could not know that she would one day stage a feminist protest there. isn t some we drove to cologne and as we got closer to the cathedral we played a game to see you could spot it first i won i can still remember the overwhelming sight of it you looked up and it seemed endlessly tall it was breathtaking and and special. find. a few years later vit was looking for a place to stage a protest against the oppression of women. protests we decided to hold the protest in a church and cologne cathedral came to mind right away that kind of an invalid because it s so big and because cardinal mice now is still in office thank god it s not. cardinal you often meisner archbishop of cologne known for his conservative
opinions of those who were affected by those events and still you ve got to explain to people what that white spot is perceptions of buildings are always changing depending on how you explain the context annoyed at. a refugee boat as an altar. in may twenty sixth cardinal vine a movie of archbishop of cologne sparked vehement debate with this mass held. the feast of corpus christi. the boat was later put on display in the cathedral a reminder of the essence of the christian message and a powerful political signal the story made headlines around the world. to do not just on a human religious and political level i think it s brilliant that he used the cathedral in this way a corpus christi procession featuring