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Nightsky
December 7th, 2004, 09:01 PM
As you can see, this is an impressive beautiful cathedral in the small town of Skara in the Swedish landscape Västergötland.
http://www.wadbring.com/historia/bilder3/skara.jpg
http://www.vallecamping.com/domkyrkan.GIF

I wonder if anyone know the height of it (info needed for the diagram)?

AtlanticaC5
December 7th, 2004, 10:03 PM
Really beautiful church, looks more like France than Skara! I would guess it's around 70 m, but I've mailed the church and asked :)

Nightsky
December 7th, 2004, 10:28 PM
Thanks, Atlantica! I guess 75 meters.

AtlanticaC5
December 12th, 2004, 12:35 PM
I've got the answer now. Skara Domkyrkas towers are 65,5 m tall and were built in 1894. There have been a cathedral on the same place since the 10th or 11th century, but the church of today was built between 1886-1894 by the famous Helgo Zetterwall :)

Nightsky
December 12th, 2004, 01:35 PM
I copied the text and info to the diagram. A little bit sad it wasn't at least 75m tall, but it is 10m taller than Lund's domkyrka.

Thank you so much for finding this info! :)

Do you want to draw this? If you want to do that I see no need to draw it myself.

designwise
December 12th, 2004, 01:45 PM
The Skara cathedral looks like the Neo-Gothic, Johannes Cathedral in Helsinki designed by Adolf Melander in 1888 :

http://aerodome.net/gallery-kuvat/album30/uspensk_pieni.sized.jpg

The towers are 74 metres in height.

AtlanticaC5
December 12th, 2004, 03:45 PM
@Najtskaj: I can draw it, but I won't do it right now. Feel free to do it if you want to :)

Jarmo K
December 12th, 2004, 05:56 PM
that's a nice church!

Nightsky
December 13th, 2004, 02:50 PM
I'll also wait I have a lot of drawing projects listed(and of course a lot of other things).
I just discovered Johannes Church via the diagram so it's a coincidence that you posted this(very nice) one.