Andlau - Saints-Pierre-et-Paul

Richardis, wife of Charles III (aka "Charles the Fat") and so "Holy Roman Empress", founded the abbey in Andlau ca 880. Later she lived here (as the abbess). She was known for her piety and so she was canonised, when Pope Leo IX paid a visit to the abbey in 1049.

Another frame of the frieze in Andlau.

A story about domestication! A wild boar - and it´s domesticated cousin.

A hunter (to the right) points out to a wild boar to his dog. I think, that the animal outside the frame is a boar, as they were hunted with spears. And it connects to the rest of the story..

There are two butchers. The person in the middle hold up his axe, to kill the (domesticated) pig. He will hit the pig´s head with the edgeless side of the axe - and then cut it´s throat. This method is still in use today. Somewhere. His collegue standing to the left is already waiting - and sharpening his long knife meanwhile. As soon, as the pig is dead, they will start to prepare the "black pudding", known in France as "boudin noir" , in Germany as "Blutwurst".