Church

Designed by Norbert Pachner; supported by Andreas Abel

Designed by Norbert Pachner, supported by Andreas Abel, in February, 2012.  Build by Knut Eckstein.  The two towers, different in size, draw one’s attention at a first glance of the Notre-dame-de Chartres cathedral.  This is a result of the long building period: the entrance facade and the right tower originate from the epoch of the early Gothic.  That was just the transition period from the roman round arches to the Gothic pointed arches.  In contrast to this, the left tower was finished 350 year later.  The high-Gothic nave is very wide; its walls are interrupted by big windows.  To prevent collapsing of the wide vault, the walls are supported at the exterior by buttresses having a very decorative effect as well. For the Anker model, I built only the western entrance front and part of the nave.  The full cathedral would require box Nr. 34 and many special stones.  The backside may be best kept out of sight.  The model looks best when applying the cutout rosette in the big aperture.  One may also put the Gothic window poles in the windows of the high tower.  This may be done best while erecting the building; inserting it at a later stage may easily cause dislocation of the small stones.
It is recommended to place a piece of thin cardboard (8 × 8 cm) in the left tower at a height of 15.875.  Subsequently the inner part of the following layer can be filled with stones while building the layer at 17.125 with the isolated stones Nr. 29 is much easier.

The booklet has recently been published on the new BiK pages on www.ankerstein.ch/bik . The direct links: www.ankerstein.ch/bik/NF24/NF24_Bauvorlagen.pdf www.ankerstein.ch/bik/NF24/NF24_Schnitte.pdf  

 


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