cathedral of Lausanne APK

love visitors, we welcome you to the cathedral of Lausanne!
- in the year 1145 the construction work started on this impressive house of god according to plans bishop Vico de Pisano.
A centuries-later, in the year 1275, the cathedral was to honor the Virgin Mary as "notre dame de Lausanne" inaugurated.
Lausanne is located on the Jakob pilgerweg, and so was the cathedral, the entire Middle Ages target of numerous pilgrim.
in the year 1536 the canton of Vaud became Protestant, and with it also the cathedral.
church treasure and relics were away.The waad of the Reformed Church of the canton (eerv) developed application would accompany the visitors informative and inspirational on his way through the cathedral and allow him an autonomous urbanization of this spiritual and historical stronghold.
1. The application was developed to erlauben.2 the visitors a totally free sightseeing of the building.
in addition to a content, of a classic audio guide will read to him as he looks on display details that are otherwise not accessible to him.
based visual assist in the allocation of the comments.
Three examples among others: the visitor is able to accompany the church tower watchman on his round, details of the medallion of the window rose shall be made available by grossaufnahmen, and he gets an insight into the heart of organ mechanics.
several video sequences produced especially to illustrate the selected topics.
so far five topics were performed.
their content is integral in three different applications to help: in French (cathédrale), English (cathedral) and German (cathedral).
the aim is to allow visitors to make meaningful its course, what they see, and less historical details or information for restoration explain (which are mainly for specialists of interest).
an example: the rich symbolism of the numerous statues of the "portail peint" should the middle ages transmit a pilgrim of embassy.
the application would provide emotional world the visitors a vivid access to it.
Similarly with all listed below topics: first
The tower keeper and the bell (the history of the watchman, its role and of the various bell-), 2.
the rose (one access to the message of this glass window composition: the time of humans, let into the time-god), 3.
animal sculptures (the symbolism of the myriad animal figures in the cathedral). 4
the organ (they see, and hear). 5
"Le portail peint" (his embassy emotionally experienced as a pilgrim in medieval times) other topics will follow in the next releases.