Paderborn - Cathedral

The "Paradies Portal" (with some snow flying in the foreground). The cathedral has a kind of "narthex" - like many french churches, This area was much bigger upto the mid of the 19th century. The sculptured portal is the largest of it´s kind in Westphalia. It was carved early 13th century. The carvers obviously started "romanic" - and mixed in some early "gothic" style later. St. Mary on the trumeau in the middle. Standing! Left and right on the doors are wooden statues of St. Kilian and St. Liborius (12th.), both tightly wooven into the history of the Paderborn diocese. Some of the bigger sculptures left and right are easy to "read". St. Peter (key), St. James (shell), but not all. On the very right is St. Katharina, stepping on the (heathenly) roman emperor Maxentius.