[000:00:00;00] the, the steeple of m min stuff is a well and rank hole at exactly 161 meters and 53 centimeters. it's the toners church town in the west. around $1000000.00 visitors belong to them instead, each year. it's almost most famous landmarks, one of the most prosperous and telephone german cities in the middle ages the on the way down the tower run

a calls on the tower awarded every day. did you run up this hour? yes. load the how was that built in good. as also run up the tower, the font size, all i found it to be a real challenge. those for the one division you're alone with yourself and the tower and the effort to you and it's really exhausting on the understanding. the last section really challenged to me is let's just stick me down as an ocean organs because of the so the incompressible appliances 70 meters above the city. the 60 year old is a qualified engineer for more than 10 years. he has been the tower warden at own minster. he says it's the best job in the world avon lake that i even told me that i live 300 meters from here as the crow flies. so mind and i can see um and stuff from my windows state. i just stands there and a norm as powerful building the the, the new phone. fine. you come up from bavaria on the autobahn. no matter where you're coming from. this building stands in front of you like

a fortress. yeah. yeah, yeah. i love that about it. to cindy as it is, this could be a good one. that had been towel gordon's at the main stuff, a center in the balconies. we used to look out for a finance or advancing um is to sound the alarm. the view from up here is marvelous. this is the oversight when i come up here in the morning when i'm the 1st person to look out over, my town is able to stop the window soluble, my and i say my town deliberately took guns. it was the 1st se formula. i see what's changing the, what's growing less vague, what's being demolished about what's being rebuilt on top of it. and of course i have a sense of grand, you're being so high um height. so over to say about this,

also somebody at the foot at the talent who enjoys the morning just as much asked eva, hod all is the banjo, it's his job to ensure the smooth running of them instead of an i always get up at half past 5 on sunday morning, so i'm here by half past 6. it's the best part of the day. the he's always the 1st to arrive. for him, the church is a spiritual, a waste is a place where he can reach out to his band trans the

as roger and ced ava. how devona is some things like the pastors righthand. he gets everything ready for the service. that's why he doesn't wear overalls, but the suit in addition to practical things, such as unlocking the judge and switching on the lights, he also for pass the on to the 1st service of the day, always takes place in the quiet stalls to mind the whole filled out, i know my job also includes taking care of the building is the minister teaches us a humility. that's rather than pride. i think this space definitely has that effect even on ignorant people wouldn't be say, leave the church differences from when they went in and of course can be 70 guns.

and judge surfaces are being held in them in the fall around 600 years or diminish to it says, i can please best time. is it convinced or probably doesn't care who works here mostly. so i'll have a stick. the main thing is to do it right? i would, i would never say it's mine. minister my you wouldn't hear that from me this. so this is familiar to him. a few meters above the client's tools and ced ava hod freedom on the ministers, musical director insist some playing the open himself at the morning service even when it's bitterly cold. this is stephanie here. the organization sits here in a bit of a draft of the smart. it's very noticeable it's down below we have pedal heating him, but we have to retrofit the new oregon with infrared heating for the fingers of device television. um, we have to use clouds bags, for instance, so that the draft doesn't turn the pages of the handles from the hosting just because i'm even in mid summer. it's nasa walmart than

15 degrees celsius in the 40 meter high organ long. today, it's barely 10 degrees. the enormous name is still empty at 8 o'clock. the quiet stalls in front of the altar. i'll sufficient for the 1st sunday savage. the dean ends to build them gold. lumps in minster,

a deal less to be gone. who does not reject my friend his days as pasta here, a number. he has been elected regional bishop. the pain accounting is mixed with a joint. the shy fund is a wonderful space, a person in itself, so it'd be also preaches with a light, even if it's a bit of a cost. like today. it's a great gift to be able to administer in a building like this. and so the the, the lord bless you and keep you, the lord, making space to shine upon you and be gracious onto you. the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you the

dean go shows us his favorite place and minister you should status. i gave the sewer just to keep august that appeal to me depending on my mood. but i mean, if i want to have some peace and quiet, if i go to the better chapel and see if we did many able stained glass windows many centuries old i know is actually identifies that such an image of height view is good to be part of this tradition during things one has a lot of options depending on one's night at the moment. so you enough time to get into the venture and ced ava hod. all also has his favorite spots and that means to but to get that, you have to walk across the rafters about the knave more than 40 meters above ground. it's the balance. now there's one special bell here, over 500 years old. for centuries that has been wrong by hand. once a year,

when the cities man takes an of that all the residents of the town shall be treated equally. today is just a real hassle. the does this as soon as i'm in my know, leaping state is to this is definitely one of my favorite duties. dumb it would take a lot for me to have to send a substitute. i'm sure it would be terrible for me if i was ill. was likely and couldn't do it myself. conrad at one distance and was one of the 10 most important german towns in the middle ages. in this town, on the down, you was

a powerful trading hub and was immensely rich in the towns archives. the most important documents from the city is ponte. the present historian goodwin, let's takes us into the volt. yeah, we see the original plan that the minced a talent from the 15th century. the, the drawing is on punishment. a judge and the caustic style with facebook. 20000 people at the time and had barely hop that many residents. but the bankers of the city wanted to really imposing church and paid for it themselves. the this moment sticklers or should be a t o m. i n s a a, a,

the residents who wanted to read the couch goals. so they built one in almost parish church in a month town. and we had one parish church and, and it had to be enormous in and cool. and of course, a launch church also needs the launch tower on board. the people who own wanted it to symbolize the power and wealth of to you. the main step was originally times as a catholic church, and the intention was to place a statue of the virgin mary on top of the spire. however, this plan was abandoned when bloom became protestant in the 16th century, the best cindy optimum. this. these are the least from 1530 in the morning. the votes of the male citizens of moons altura entitled to vote on whether you should conduct to the image of the co faithful. not just in color. 87 percent of the residents decided in favor of the new don't try enough and try to teach fluid and know your letter. and so the catholic minster became a protestant church. historian,

governance tells us what this meant and practical times. ready until then, the rich families of the city at embellish them instead with works of art. as was the custom with catholic churches, there was at least one private don't want to at each miller. as many as 60 in the hole in charge of paintings and sculpture. every way the historian explains that rich patrons liked to see themselves depicted in these blocks. a wealthy match. and couple kneeling at the feet of golf or at this altar, which shows the family of jesus, the faces of those of the who it's much and family on of that had to go after the reformation. the vs stood a safety meta high on top. but good,

let's tells us that it was destroyed in the zeal of the reformation. however, there was no general destruction of religious in all the time, the new speed of the people still think of the protestant reformation as icon, the plastic. yeah. but here it took the form of what i would call an orderly removal of images. not the town council gave the donors the opportunity to take home. the works of all that had stood on the found the altars warranty and familiar attend started. however, the changes of the reformation didn't stop throwing out paintings and old houses suddenly all forms of austin taishan and the context on itself were found upon the good protestants of home decided that 70 meters was told enough for a charge tower. a, me to stay in bo, i'm in stem. so for who tools cost advice has been taken to stop construction work on the church to prevent and numerous costs. and the embarrassment of like, architecture was beginning to go out of session. one of the residents of blooming

to chose to stop construction rather than to continue being the subject of ridicule before it on vi type of spotted with women statement info with me. but i but today we see it standing there almost 162 meters high. some 300 years of the building raised. that was a don't think were 5, all the old plans were taken out of the drawer and the tower was completed on 8 flying buttresses and on chairs. what ad, neo golfing, and its purest on the, the historic building has also inspired stories. cops and shortages is an audiologist. and all that means to inspire and hunt to write a series of children's books in which a bond is the main protagonist, the for the children of

whom this gone going is lily long. yeah. the back from or minister, the now you can say that we must spots gives then continue. this will be on the spot, right. what is being an obvious choice? every child here knows him. please tell that i've read too many stories about the sparrow. so i was looking for another creature i needed one that know certainly explains the different of the ground, but it can also fly into the ad to take a look. what works of the top that binds to mean. almost every child in em knows book because many children in elementary school, none about them in step from it. the archeologist explains the church, his features and its works of art in a way to to appeals the children persistent. this was the most of the devil has bite wings. just like me, she exclaimed, kind of, don't worry. he has the dragon wings and the dragon has always been a symbol of evil. but that used to be the case,

the bad people too. they were. so it'd be distant relatives that the devil, because spots only come out to night. lots of t b, i think. but it's not certainly the people who know and lump them into. the judge strolls tourists from around the world. some 1000000 people visit own minutes, the h e a. and some 150000 of them klein. the tyler as the minister is prepared for emergencies in this narrow space. johan, as soon as the head of the voluntary height rescue service. so good evening, everyone. a warm welcome to the rescue service here at the main fire station. we'll set out straight away to the minster minutes. today we'll be practicing a rescue through the belfry shackleton trustful. once a year they train for a rescue mission in the midst of town,

the women. we found it twice this afternoon. i do health about every 12 or 18 months. we have to go up to rescue someone once publish. this doesn't always result in transport through the bell chamber and when i'm going to have you walk up there with your eyes open and look at some of the tourist, you know, some things going to happen from time to time. especially if i did, i did to, people don't realize what it involves climbing 143 meters to or whether they can do it. can you see people with 2 bags from the market who then struggle up the tower in high heels or dressed too lightly or overdrive? i think i do see everything gets out of the rescue as all volunteers and they have to kind of get their equipment themselves the right time. so we're

going to get whole a stay a ride at 70 meters. just in case of the interest in technology, the fun of working with others is and above all, getting close to objects and buildings to which most people don't have access to the boy. a construction crane, a large mil, television tower, bulk administer, other people don't have access and we do, we can practice here and we're also doing something worthwhile. that's what we're doing it for our fellow citizens. and it's altogether a good feeling of this to some. we'll just go through the on file find to has a special bond with them and stuff he got married here and his son was baptized in the job. the fact to the high to rescue the 1st ball into a patient, his health suspended over the belfry shop. jessica glanced at is watching

closely. feel the net and it's a sub meet at all. like this a little. so then the gap opened and we dropped down 70 meters. this could, this is the most critical point, is the opening of the belfry shaft and that's when the lid is removed off when you feel the draft from below. because the cool air then rushes up, and that's when you realize, wow, i'm really going to drop 70 meters 15 minute window as it was supposed to go to the day. but when you let me know a good time before you come through the next talk. yeah, yes, we still have a meet or move,

everything's okay. so in mid meters, more than 10 minutes to the next task. so since at least look through it. we're through the whole long so i'm up slow down. so how you drew long, summer, low down with you because here comes the chandelier, comes 10 meters to the next to the

not quite deep lowering. yeah, yes, i'm happy, everything's fine with the rescue. operations are also carried out in the construction science office. in this case, the patient is the minister itself. there are plenty of custom made span pumps in the yard. one of them is the rescue is, is amy a class. he's a stonemason with a passion. he has been working on them and stuff for some 35 years the out of his bulk of sandstone. he's coughing a piece to repair parts of the town and we still just us such as you know, how about it is i have to was very meticulously deformity foreman to all by doing so. right. and i have to pass on the patterns and the process to the following generation to escape the. so that is as little falsification as possible,

which they kind of know designs are, the ones aren't on on the replicas as precise as possible means that is a permanent construction site. in the $198.00 is christ solve the charge briefly without scaffolding. but that was a long time ago for stonemason shows us a simple method using cost of bandages. so the cracks in the dallas window. so if the crack continues to open the plaster where we've mocked the crack will break apart tonight. so maybe even opposite will fall off and then we can see that this movement. ready that's how you keep a check on it. to by heidi fulman is construction manager in charge of maintenance and restoration of or minster. the job is to conserve the monumental structure. she describes this responsibility as both the button and,

and on. this is vicky. it's like receiving appear edge. i called describe it any other way. it was a totally attractive jump it's. i just meant type. i just had to apply for it. i got off of um, it's good that it all worked out. it's something special. yeah. currently the main concern is the tower. the construction manager is particularly worried about the effect. so climate change that we haven't the 3 hurricane to see. 3 new row one and 3 down courses really heavy rain. unlike other launch buildings for minster has to cope with that of and when you look at these don't formations how washed out, they are essentially the heights where we was how they are each and way. it's an enormous challenge for us and see how eroded they all by absolution. which is not actually the main problem enough to move by the rain that the lashes them when there's a storm. just recognizing what parts of the structure and no longer intact if that's

a big responsibility she found in this section that had to replace 30 tons of stone . that's no simple matter in the case of a golf in the building, but each down it's important for the statics of the home swapping stones has to be calculated unplanned, precisely. but despite all the challenges everyone here enjoyed the work is simply really cute. it's a privilege to be able to work here tools. that's one thing. and then there's some reference involved festival respect from all the people who've worked here before us and then respect to the building itself. i have great respect for omen, stuff if it's an honor to be here to sign

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