Augsburg Cathedral Augsburger Dom
Look up into the southern clerestory to spot five figures glaring down from the glass. These are the Augsburg Prophets, crafted in the late eleventh century and holding the title of the oldest large scale stained glass windows on earth. Augsburg Cathedral wears its messy timeline on its sleeve. You can clearly see the seam where a squat Romanesque nave crashes into an incomplete Gothic choir. Step through the south portal past stone apostles to stand on the same flooring where a quick witted chaplain and local teenagers saved the entire structure from incendiary bombs in 1944. Notice the scent of old masonry mixed with the faint metallic tang of the nearby bronze works. Your neck will spend most of the visit craned upwards toward the painted wooden ceilings and the captured Ottoman flag hanging far above the altar.
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