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The shadows of four-engine bombers fall over the city centre; a few moments later and Hildesheim Cathedral, a masterwork of the Romanesque period, is engulfed in blazing flames: this destruction during the Second World War was only one of the dramatic highpoints in the long building history of Hildesheim Cathedral. The graphics experts of the Hildesheim company media.plus X, who created the video on behalf of the Hildesheim Cathedral Chapter, used all tools at their disposal to depict this fateful day in the year 1945, but also other important milestones of the past twelve centuries, in a spectacular way. Using animation, they compressed the complicated building history of the cathedral so that lay people can easily understand it: from the founding chapel of Louis the Pious in the year 815, via the first cathedral church and the imposing “castles of god” by the bishops of the Middle Ages, to the cathedral as we know it today.
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