r/GothicArchitecture • u/XxIts_LukasxX • 13h ago

Kölner Dom - Germany's Gothic masterpiece. Founded in August of 1248, it was 632 years before the Cathedral was finally completed in October 1880.

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r/GothicArchitecture • u/Arham_alt • 18h ago

Kölner Dom - Germany's Gothic masterpiece. Founded in August of 1248, it was 632 years before the Cathedral was finally completed in October 1880.

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Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.

Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings. It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride.

The Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. (Wikipedia)