Der lokalen Legende nach erinnern die 16 lebensgroßen Ochsfiguren auf den zwei Westtürmen der frühfranzösischen gotischen Kathedrale in Laon in Aisne, Hauts-de-France, an ein Beispiel göttlicher Intervention aus dem 12.. Jahrhundert: Plötzlich erscheint ein Ochsenbier, der einem kämpfenden Transportteam den Hügel hinauf hilft - und verschwindet, sobald die Ladung den Gipfel erreicht hat.
4005 x 2786 px | 33,9 x 23,6 cm | 13,4 x 9,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
31. August 2007
Ort:
Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France: beneath a mackerel sky, 16 life-size oxen sculpted in stone stare down from the upper arcades of the twin western towers of the medieval Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon. The statues apparently immortalise the teams of draft oxen that hauled huge blocks of stone and building equipment from the plain below up to the top of the 100 meter-high hill on which the cathedral stands while it was under construction in the late 1100s. However, according to local tradition, the statues actually commemorate a miraculous event, said to have happened after the previous Romanesque church on the summit burned down in 1112, and was being restored. A haulage team of oxen dragging equipment up the hill found their cargo was simply too heavy - until they were reinforced by a bullock that had suddenly joined them. Once the strengthened team reached the summit, the mystery bullock disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. Local people believed that the incident was an example of divine intervention. Laon Cathedral, built between 1150 and 1230, is contemporary with Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and is one of the most important and stylistically unified examples of early Gothic architecture. It replaced the earlier church on the same site that was torched during an insurrection in April 1112. Laon lost its status as a bishopric during the 1789 French Revolution, but although the building has only held the status of a parish church since 1802, it is still universally known as Laon Cathedral. D0452.A5391
