Dom St. Jakob

I wanted to post a few more pictures of the church where the organ concert took place. The internet connection that I have has been less than cooperative, so we'll see if I can manage to do it. This is a picture facing the altar of St. Jakob. The church is very beautiful, but very overly ornate in the Baroque style. It was built between 1717 -1724, heavily damaged in WWII, and restored.

The ceiling is completely painted, just like the area over the alter. Although I also have pictures of the ceiling, they'll have to wait. It was all I could do to get these two pictures to post this afternoon.

The whole church is very ornate, with small sculptures and paintings throughout, as well as bigger figures. Most of the decorative pieces that are found in this church, I have no idea what their significance is, like this gold and silver structure which juts out from the wall above the height of a person's head. And of course, as can be seen from the last post, the organ fits the style of the rest of the church. The pictures don't really do any of this justice, but especially the organ. The biggest pipes are bigger aound than a man's head, and the sound that can be produced by it is terrific. The lowest sounds seem to shake the building and set up an answering vibration in your chest.

Today we took the cable cars to the top of the mountain. Waaaaay fun. And of course I have pictures. I'll post them later since every time I try loading a picture it tends to make me lose my internet connection. I seem to be a day behind in my posts.

Time to go meet folks again, so more later.