3-078-258 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cathedral of Ulm, Würtemberg, now completed, 1890. 'The city of Ulm, in Wiirtemberg, celebrates this year, from June 28 to July 1, the completion of its noble cathedral, the building of which was commenced in 1377. It was on the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, in 1877, that the work of restoring or repairing parts of this magnificent Gothic edifice, which had been begun a few years before, was followed by a determination to raise the great tower, left unfinished in 1491 by Matthew Boblinger, the architect of that period, to the height of the original design, which has now been executed with entire fidelity by an architect of the present day, Professor Adolf Beyer...this cathedral is the Seat of Lutheran worship...in the present year, the summit of the spire was crowned with the top stone, which terminates a pinnacle formed in the shape of a double cross, with projecting arms of sculptured floral device. This pinnacle is 528 ft. high, which is 16 ft. above that of Cologne Cathedral, and considerably higher than the spires of Strasburg, St. Nicholas at Hamburg, and others of renowned altitude, while it rises far above the dome of St- Peter's at Rome. Ulm Cathedral may indeed now boast the loftiest church spire in the world'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.