Paris - Cathédrale Notre-Dame

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame was erected between 1163 and 1250. Then the transepts seemed old fashioned and got demoshed and rebuilt. This was finally done in 1363.

This facade had been completed in 1225, the towers and the rose window in 1250. At that time Saint Denis was already 60 years old - elegant Laon about 10 years.

There are two aisles on either side. The distance to the choir is about 130 meters. The height of the nave reaches 32,50 meters. The windows of the choir had no tracery in the early times.

When Philipp II (1165-1223) made Paris the the capital of his kingdom, Paris may have had a population of 20.000 (just like Cologne). About half of the population could find a place inside the Cathédrale Notre-Dame.

In 1793 the cathedral was dedicated to the Cult of Reason, later to the Cult of the Supreme Being, before is was just used as a warehouse for the storage of food.