Yesterday I was at Stephens Cathedral. Inside we couldn`t make photos.
And outside we found a little Stephens Cathedral - it was so nice.
I also was at the roof! Great - a little girl on the roof of Stephens Cathedral!
And Sue and Melek were with me!
I also wanted to know more about
Stephansdom = St. Stephan's cathedral - so I was told:
It took over 100 years to build it.
Stephens Cathedral has the South Tower and the North Tower which has never been finished. I wanted to know why and was told the Sage of Hans Puchsbaum. (I then wanted to know what a Sage is. They explained that it was similar to a tell tale. It is typical for Vienna, or even for Austria as a whole.)
Well, here is the tell tale of Hans Puchsbaum:
He was a young man, who worked as an architect for St. Stephan's cathedral. He was very talented, and his boss was impressed by his work. Then he fell in love with the daughter of his boss. His boss was only willing to allow their relationship, if Hans proved himself to be the best architect of the city by finishing the North Tower of the Cathedral. Hans was devastated - this was an impossible task. He didn't know what to do - and that was when he met the Devil and made a deal with him. He was promised to be able to finish the North Tower in no time, but wasn't allowed to speak the names of the holy family for one year.
The North Tower was nearly finished, when one day Hans saw his beloved standing in front of the Cathedral. He called her name"Maria", so that she would see him. That was when he fell.
All the work on the North Tower was immediatly abandoned, and hasn't been continued until today.