Sunday, January 21, 2007




This is the cathedral, or Dom, at various angles. It's a massive building, and I think fairly unattractive on the outside, reminds me of a hospital, although there's a very nice baroque facade at the front that disguises the otherwise plain exterior. Confusingly, there are three other huge churches and the bishop's residence (for when he was in town and not up in the castle fighting and torturing), so the whole complex looks like a Germanic version of the Vatican. On Christmas Eve, it was snowing so we went for a walk at night, and we ended up at a Christmas Eve mass inside the cathedral, which was very nice. Of course our going inside had nothing to do with spiritual urges, but since I promised not to complain about the cold I can't tell you the real reason we went inside was to regain some feeling in our frostbitten extremities.


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