The tallest church in every European country - Page 5

EuroMaster · September 2nd, 2010, 11:52 AM

Rouen France 151m. Great cathedral. I fell in love with it as a child.

by Herve Colosio

Mont Saint Michel. Mount around 80m, including the abbey around 170m. Rising out of the flat bay of Mont Saint-Michel.

EuroMaster · September 2nd, 2010, 12:18 PM

BREDA

On of the tallest church towers in the Netherlands. Breda, 98m.
(Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk) Church of Our Holy Lady:

EuroMaster · September 2nd, 2010, 01:31 PM

CHRISTCHURCH New Zealand. Cathedral Aquare. The tower is 63 meters in height.

DELFT, Netherlands. Second tallest church tower: 110 meters

foto Flip Veldmans

ReiAyanami · September 3rd, 2010, 11:00 AM

There is no info for Greece.
Here is St Paul and Peter in my home town Chania in Crete island.
Its is under construction the last 50 years, still bare and empty in the inside, it will take many years to finish.

Sabonis · September 3rd, 2010, 01:03 PM

Tallest church in Lithuania

St. Matthew church in Anykščiai (79 m.)

http://www.panoramas.lt/m_katalog.php?p_id=621&lg=4

mirza-sm · September 3rd, 2010, 01:10 PM

Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Roman Catholic Church in Mostar, beat that!

EagleX · September 3rd, 2010, 02:07 PM

Coooooool!!!!!!!

Bez_imena · September 3rd, 2010, 09:14 PM

The Name of Mary Church 72m.
Novi Sad

JohnnyFive · September 8th, 2010, 03:06 AM

The tallest church in Scotland is St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh at 90m.

pepin0 · October 14th, 2010, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raar78

The tallest church in the world is ULM MINISTER in Germany. Its height is 161.5m (530 ft).

waiting for sagrada familia @ 170m (under construction!!). Ulm minister is so beatiful

Rocky031 · October 14th, 2010, 08:00 PM

Not the tallest one in Croatia but its quite tall....Osijek church (98 meters)
I dont have time to upload better pics

nauportus90 · October 18th, 2010, 01:09 AM

(Source: http://www.svetlana.si/wp-content/up...ljana3-980.jpg)

I think photo of Slovenia's tallest church has already been posted, but here's an interesting piece of information about this (unattractive) shrine: it was built by Jesuits in 1913, but the communist regime took the church from the Jesuits in 1949 and soon after that Slovenia's biggest film studio moved into the desacralized church. It was returned to the Jesuits only in 1996, so majority of Slovenian films, made between 1949 and 1996, were actually filmed inside a church!

DiggerD21 · October 18th, 2010, 02:16 AM

Hamburg:

church tower of St.Nikolai, 147.3m (highest building in the world 1874-1877. Observation deck at 75m)

St.Michaelis church, 132m (observation deck at 82m)

St.Petri church, 132m (observation deck at 123m)

St.Jacobi church, 124.5m

St.Katharinen church, 115m

St.Gertrud church, 88m

(all pictures are from wikipedia)

futate01 · October 18th, 2010, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BDzsH_88

Poor poland... you have many beautyful historical churchs, but this one is disgusting. Let me show another facade of the building:

Horroristic... this tympanum like some social-realist fantasy...

It was built between 1994 and 2004

Damn you people on here suffer from severe cognitive dissonance!

How is this building any more "kitsch" than Saint Peters Basilica or any of the ridiculously ornate (in pink and other ridiculous colors) German and Austrian Baroque churches? The only reason you call it "kitsch" is because it was made yesterday. If this had been built a few hundred years ago it would be called beautiful neoclassical etc etc.

The cognitive dissonance here is astounding. If somebody copies old architecture it is bad because it is a "copy", and if then somebody uses old architecture as an inspiration but than adds new touches than it is "kitch".

CloserToTheSky · October 18th, 2010, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by futate01

Damn you people on here suffer from severe cognitive dissonance!

How is this building any more "kitsch" than Saint Peters Basilica or any of the ridiculously ornate (in pink and other ridiculous colors) German and Austrian Baroque churches? The only reason you call it "kitsch" is because it was made yesterday. If this had been built a few hundred years ago it would be called beautiful neoclassical etc etc.

The cognitive dissonance here is astounding. If somebody copies old architecture it is bad because it is a "copy", and if then somebody uses old architecture as an inspiration but than adds new touches than it is "kitch".

Totally agree with You.

nauportus90 · October 18th, 2010, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by futate01

Damn you people on here suffer from severe cognitive dissonance!

How is this building any more "kitsch" than Saint Peters Basilica or any of the ridiculously ornate (in pink and other ridiculous colors) German and Austrian Baroque churches? The only reason you call it "kitsch" is because it was made yesterday. If this had been built a few hundred years ago it would be called beautiful neoclassical etc etc.

The cognitive dissonance here is astounding. If somebody copies old architecture it is bad because it is a "copy", and if then somebody uses old architecture as an inspiration but than adds new touches than it is "kitch".

Sorry, but the church in Lichen Stary is ugly as hell (no pun intended

)! There are just too many styles and colors going on there! But if religious people and pilgrims find spiritual comfort there, then that's all that matters!
But from my point of view (I study architecture) it's still a tasteless little thing...well, not that little!

erbse · October 19th, 2010, 12:35 PM

Stary Lichen just fails to apply to the rules of classic beauty in architecture.
It's out of proportions, nothing's fitting together, it's just like a nouveau riche temple.
Pretty disgusting indeed and a huge waste of money. As much as I'm a fan of postmodern and today's neoclassical architecture, this one is a big fail.

Poland should better reconstruct some of its gone buildings instead. Just thinking about all the devastated stuff in the eastern part of the country, in Silesia, Pommerania etc...

Iluminat · October 19th, 2010, 02:31 PM

Indeed it's like a parody of historical styles with bad proportions and rather chaotic mix of styles anyway it's not a representative example of modern Polish church architecture... not that it's good in general but Licheń is quite drastic.

balthazar · November 21st, 2010, 03:09 PM

San Gaudenzio, novara, 122 m, Is the second tallest church in Italy after s. Peter. (maybe the first, cause s. Peter is in Vatican city

....)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Gaudenzio

Novara - Cupola di San Gaudenzio [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) undefined CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], di Umby (Opera propria), da Wikimedia Commons

TimeAndTide · November 30th, 2010, 08:25 AM

Rouen

September 2nd, 2010, 11:52 AM	#81
EuroMaster Illustrateur Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Authenticity Posts: 8,535 Likes (Received): 9	Rouen France 151m. Great cathedral. I fell in love with it as a child. by Herve Colosio Mont Saint Michel. Mount around 80m, including the abbey around 170m. Rising out of the flat bay of Mont Saint-Michel. __________________ EM Last edited by EuroMaster; September 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 PM.

September 2nd, 2010, 12:18 PM	#82
EuroMaster Illustrateur Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Authenticity Posts: 8,535 Likes (Received): 9	BREDA On of the tallest church towers in the Netherlands. Breda, 98m. (Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk) Church of Our Holy Lady: __________________ EM Last edited by EuroMaster; September 2nd, 2010 at 01:39 PM.

September 2nd, 2010, 01:31 PM	#83
EuroMaster Illustrateur Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Authenticity Posts: 8,535 Likes (Received): 9	CHRISTCHURCH New Zealand. Cathedral Aquare. The tower is 63 meters in height. DELFT, Netherlands. Second tallest church tower: 110 meters foto Flip Veldmans __________________ EM Last edited by EuroMaster; September 2nd, 2010 at 11:27 PM.

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mirza-sm PRVA pratilja SRBpdf2013 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sarajevo Posts: 27,775 Likes (Received): 572	Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina Roman Catholic Church in Mostar, beat that! __________________ BOSNO MOJAAA

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EagleX GLaDOS Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Szabatak Posts: 2,413 Likes (Received): 45	Coooooool!!!!!!! Last edited by EagleX; September 3rd, 2010 at 02:23 PM.

September 3rd, 2010, 11:00 AM	#84
ReiAyanami BANNED Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,394 Likes (Received): 2	There is no info for Greece. Here is St Paul and Peter in my home town Chania in Crete island. Its is under construction the last 50 years, still bare and empty in the inside, it will take many years to finish.

September 3rd, 2010, 01:03 PM	#85
Sabonis BANNED Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,389 Likes (Received): 2	Tallest church in Lithuania St. Matthew church in Anykščiai (79 m.) http://www.panoramas.lt/m_katalog.php?p_id=621&lg=4

September 3rd, 2010, 09:14 PM	#88
Bez_imena Kosovo is Serbia! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Serbia, Србија Posts: 3,972 Likes (Received): 165	The Name of Mary Church 72m. Novi Sad

September 8th, 2010, 03:06 AM	#89
JohnnyFive Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Posts: 2,218 Likes (Received): 15	The tallest church in Scotland is St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh at 90m.

October 14th, 2010, 08:00 PM	#91
Rocky031 Lega s Juga 2 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Osijek,Croatia Posts: 13,616 Likes (Received): 908	Not the tallest one in Croatia but its quite tall....Osijek church (98 meters) I dont have time to upload better pics __________________ 3d Osijek - [Osijek] - Construction update 2012 - My photos Osijek-Vizija razvoja - Osijek-Obnova fasada ‎''Meni je bila zgodna dok je vi niste ni primjećivali'' - PEDO MEDO

October 18th, 2010, 01:09 AM	#92
nauportus90 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Ljubljana Posts: 7 Likes (Received): 0	(Source: http://www.svetlana.si/wp-content/up...ljana3-980.jpg) I think photo of Slovenia's tallest church has already been posted, but here's an interesting piece of information about this (unattractive) shrine: it was built by Jesuits in 1913, but the communist regime took the church from the Jesuits in 1949 and soon after that Slovenia's biggest film studio moved into the desacralized church. It was returned to the Jesuits only in 1996, so majority of Slovenian films, made between 1949 and 1996, were actually filmed inside a church!

October 18th, 2010, 02:16 AM	#93
DiggerD21 spaghetti polonaise Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hamburg, Wroclaw Posts: 2,470 Likes (Received): 66	Hamburg: church tower of St.Nikolai, 147.3m (highest building in the world 1874-1877. Observation deck at 75m) St.Michaelis church, 132m (observation deck at 82m) St.Petri church, 132m (observation deck at 123m) St.Jacobi church, 124.5m St.Katharinen church, 115m St.Gertrud church, 88m (all pictures are from wikipedia)

October 19th, 2010, 12:35 PM	#97
erbse Leave UiG alone! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Mecklenburg, California of Germany ja! Posts: 20,320 Likes (Received): 4923	Stary Lichen just fails to apply to the rules of classic beauty in architecture. It's out of proportions, nothing's fitting together, it's just like a nouveau riche temple. Pretty disgusting indeed and a huge waste of money. As much as I'm a fan of postmodern and today's neoclassical architecture, this one is a big fail. Poland should better reconstruct some of its gone buildings instead. Just thinking about all the devastated stuff in the eastern part of the country, in Silesia, Pommerania etc... __________________ MARS☻ONE *Making a Mars Settlement a Reality! (FAQ • SSC Thread • Mars One Fans Forum)*

October 19th, 2010, 02:31 PM	#98
Iluminat Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 8,619 Likes (Received): 98	Indeed it's like a parody of historical styles with bad proportions and rather chaotic mix of styles anyway it's not a representative example of modern Polish church architecture... not that it's good in general but Licheń is quite drastic.

November 21st, 2010, 03:09 PM	#99
balthazar User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: laputa Posts: 4,083 Likes (Received): 531	San Gaudenzio, novara, 122 m, Is the second tallest church in Italy after s. Peter. (maybe the first, cause s. Peter is in Vatican city ....) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Gaudenzio Novara - Cupola di San Gaudenzio [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) undefined CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], di Umby (Opera propria), da Wikimedia Commons __________________ quando si dorme si beve male (René Daumal)

November 30th, 2010, 08:25 AM	#100
TimeAndTide Paris Forever !! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Paris Posts: 156 Likes (Received): 31	Rouen

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