From the famous wafer cookies to Austria’s most popular postcard motif, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna is arguably Austria’s landmark par excellence. In this series, we present Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral in a way never seen before: Michaela Obermayer and Reinhard Bengesser take you on a 3D flight through the entire building, visit places with you that are otherwise inaccessible and travel with you through the history of the building. But the stories surrounding St. Stephen’s Cathedral also play a central role, as they speak to us about religion, customs and tradition, but also about power and politics, which made St. Stephen’s Cathedral a companion to Austria’s destiny.
Episode 3: Where is Pilgram?
The late Gothic pulpit is named after the most famous cathedral master builder, although it probably has nothing to do with him. In this episode you can find out where Master Pilgram really immortalised himself and what the number symbolism is all about.
Pulpit: © Bwag/CC-BY-SA-4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wien_-_Stephansdom,_Kanzel_(4).JPG
Fenstergucker: CC-BY-SA-3.0, Markus Leupold-Löwenthal https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Stephansdom_Fenstergucker.jpg
Master Pilgram Orgelfuß: © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Pilgram_(Baumeister)#/media/Datei:Vienna_Austria_Relief-of-Anton-Pilgram-in-Stephansdom-01.jpg
