Hello from the top of Köln

[th@social.v.st]

Did you know there's a mini Eifel tower hiding underneath the crossing?

[wylan@xoxo.zone]

@th awesome photo!

[phooky@hexa.club]

@th i'm assuming the latin text on the slab there roughly translates as "please don't collapse please don't collapse please don't collapse"

[abbuus@mastodon.nl]

@th

Almost the top. 🫣

[th@social.v.st]

You might think your software project is going slow, but for comparison the masonry work was finished circa 1300 and the iron work completed around five hundred years later.

[monsieur_lepetit@toot.community]

@th
"PRAISE THE SUN!"

[nihunde@troet.cafe]

@th there was also a bunch of fabolous shade being thrown around it taking so long, i.e. this: https://kalliope.org/da/text/heine2001102266a where heinrich heine, one of the most famous german poets is thinking that it may become a stable for horses at some point

[meznor@mstdn.social]

@th I am visiting in the summer!

[mab_813@fedi.at]

@th

Reminds when I went to Cologne by train and thought "Oh I'll walk up that cathedral tower and look at the old town from above" only to realize from above that there is no old town to look at because it was destroyed in World War II.

[kensan_oni@mastodon.social]

@th How would you properly say “Please get me down from here?” That looks both breath taking and absolutely frightening.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@th

woke up one New Years morning in the late 80's some 50 or so meters under the other side of this.

I've had much worse mornings.