Photos, videos and docs of Martin M. Miles, with the keywords: "Wetzlar"

Wetzlar - Leica

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:11:02 +0000

Engineer and inventor Oskar Barnack, who was the head of development at Leitz in 1913/14, created the first working small-format camera, the "Ur-Leica". From exactly this point he took the first photograph with this camera.

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:38:25 +0000

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The Dom (= Cathedral) in Wetzlar is not really a cathedral, as it was never seat of a bishop. The construction began in 1230 and the church is is still unfinished (see the tower). Because of its long period of construction, the church combines Romanesque, Gothic and even Baroque architecture. When it was built, it replaced an older Romanesque church from the 12th century of which some parts got integrated in the new church.

The Wetzlar-Dom has been used as a simultaneum by both Roman Catholics and Protestants since the 16th century.

This fresco depicts the Virgin - and the approaching Magi.

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:49:08 +0000

Martin M. Miles has posted:

The Dom (= Cathedral) in Wetzlar is not really a cathedral, as it was never seat of a bishop. The construction began in 1230 and the church is is still unfinished (see the tower). Because of its long period of construction, the church combines Romanesque, Gothic and even Baroque architecture. When it was built, it replaced an older Romanesque church from the 12th century of which some parts got integrated in the new church.

The Wetzlar-Dom has been used as a simultaneum by both Roman Catholics and Protestants since the 16th century.

The Romanesque baptismal font may have been used already in the preceding church.

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:08:05 +0000

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Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 11:31:16 +0000

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Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:58:27 +0000

Martin M. Miles has posted:

The Dom (= Cathedral) in Wetzlar is not really a cathedral, as it was never seat of a bishop. The construction began in 1230 and the church is is still unfinished (see the tower). Because of its long period of construction, the church combines Romanesque, Gothic and even Baroque architecture. When it was built, it replaced an older Romanesque church from the 12th century of which some parts got integrated in the new church.

The Wetzlar-Dom has been used as a simultaneum by both Roman Catholics and Protestants since the 16th century.

This Gothic portal got later bricked up. The tympanum has the "Coronation of Mary", a very popular icon since early Gothic times. Below is the "Adoration of the Magi".

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:14:53 +0000

Martin M. Miles has posted:

The Dom (= Cathedral) in Wetzlar is not really a cathedral, as it was never seat of a bishop. The construction began in 1230 and the church is is still unfinished (see the tower). Because of its long period of construction, the church combines Romanesque, Gothic and even Baroque architecture. When it was built, it replaced an older Romanesque church from the 12th century of which some parts got integrated in the new church.

The Wetzlar-Dom has been used as a simultaneum by both Roman Catholics and Protestants since the 16th century.

The Gothic portal of the (uncompleted) bell tower in bright sunlight.

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 14:28:38 +0000

Martin M. Miles has posted:

The Dom (= Cathedral) in Wetzlar is not really a cathedral, as it was never seat of a bishop. The construction began in 1230 and the church is is still unfinished (see the tower). Because of its long period of construction, the church combines Romanesque, Gothic and even Baroque architecture. When it was built, it replaced an older Romanesque church from the 12th century of which some parts got integrated in the new church.

The Wetzlar-Dom has been used as a simultaneum by both Roman Catholics and Protestants since the 16th century.

The early Gothic portal was probably created end of the 13th century. On the console below "Virgin and Child" in the center is a horned devil grabbing a Jew, who wears the cone-shaped "Jewish hat". Many antisemitic pogroms had taken place during the first cruisade in Germany, known as the Rhineland massacres.

Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:12:34 +0000

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Wetzlar - Dom

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:46:49 +0000

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Wetzlar - Hauptwache

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:19:21 +0000

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After the Congress of Vienna (1815) Wetzlar became prussian and so in 1861 the prussian armee erected the Haptwache in the center of the growing town. Later it served for about a century as the local police station. Since some decades the building hosts a nice restaurant.