Historical and
Commemorative Medals
Collection of Benjamin Weiss
CATHEDRAL AT STRASBOURG WIENER, Jacques: France, 1861, Bronze, 59 mm Strasbourg is a town in France two miles west of the Rhine. The old city contains the cathedral, or Munster built between the 11th to 15th centuries. Part of the crypt dates from 1015. The apse is Transitional in style whereas the nave, finished in 1275, is pure Gothic. The elaborate west facade has a screen of double tracery, numerous sculptures and two towers, the northern one having a tall spire. The cathedral has some fine stained glass, a sculptured pulpit and a famous astronomical cloak, containing some fragments of the original clock built in 1574 by the mathematician, Conrad Dasypodius.
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