Cologne --
As quick action was needed: the cathedral architect Bill Bernd corner was discovered at the buttresses of the cathedral at about 45 meters high, a crack - just in the cross-head of a large flower spire.
"Imminent danger", thought cathedral architect Barbara Schock-Werner. "The top weighs close to 300 pounds. We can not imagine would runtergekippt from any of the autumn storms.
You would have crashed through the roof of the chapel of St. Mary, would have to meet people or priceless works of art such as the Lochner-altar. "
So the thing had to immediately down from the cathedral. A Cologne heavy logistics built around eight in the morning on a crane at the clock through the Roman Germanic Museum, a carrying basket was assembled and then everything went quite hastily: Two hours later, the "corpus delicti" in Hüttenhof was already down.
"On closer inspection, we found that the tip had already been secured with a dowel," says Schock-Werner. Nevertheless, it was right for shooting down it. "Now the point is being restored. When she returns to the cathedral, is not fixed yet.
