Strasbourg - Floating City
Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France but also a key city in German history, culture and precision engineering, as revealed by model of the astonishing cathedral clock.
Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France, but also a city with a key place in German history, culture and precision engineering, as revealed by a model of the cathedral clock, now in the British Museum.
When the writer Goethe stood in front of Strasbourg's Cathedral, he discovered two things: the transporting, transforming force of Gothic architecture and one aspect of what it meant to him to be German.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
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A close look at objects from the series
See this clock and other fascinating objects from Germany.
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Strasbourg Clock
Duration: 01:51
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An angry eagle, carrying the Imperial orb, surrounded by smaller allies and brandishing a sword, swoops down to attack and repel the French cock which is trampling a map of the Empire, its shadow blotting out Strassburg.
Image © Trustees of the British Museum.
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