Soest - Patrokli Cathedral

The central nave in St. Patrokli chatedral. It was a collegiate church, for an adjoining abbey. Later a choir screen divided the church into a "parish part" before the screen - and the monk´s part behind. - When 1531 Soest welcomed the Reformation all churches changed from catholic to protestant rits - all but the part behind the screen. Over years, the forground "was" protestant - the background "was" catholic. The secularisation of the 19th century changed that. First thing the parish-officials did was to quarry out the elvated choir - and so destroying the crypt, that meanwhile got reconstructed.