Place de la Cathédrale Strasbourg
Cobbled square before a Gothic cathedral, ringed by a stonemasons' lodge and a carved Renaissance merchant's house.
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This guide to Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg centers on the Oeuvre Notre-Dame, the stonemasons' lodge that governed master masons across the entire Holy Roman Empire from this square for nearly two hundred fifty years, starting in 1459. You'll hear how the guild, organized since the 1200s, settled disputes brought from as far as Vienna and Cologne, and see the building where architects and apprentices once worked. Across the square stands a very different structure, the timbered house a cheese merchant named Martin Braun built in 1589, carved with saints and virtues. Take a slow look between the two facades to compare the guild's austere lodge with the merchant's showpiece.
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