St. Stephan's Cathedral, Passau

[Old Crank]

The main organ is being repaired. The secondary organ sounded wery nice. The inside is spectacular.
And yes the translation of the manufacturer of the crane means Dear Lord.

The Dom.


What we came to hear.












Pulpit detail

[biophile]

1. They don't make them like that anymore! Beautiful craftsmanship

[Old Crank]

13. They could

but you can't afford it. They just redid Notre Dame with traditional methods but the cost....

[brer cat]

2. Absolutely breathtaking. Thanks so much!!

[Old Crank]

14. You are welcome

It was worth it even without the big organ

[George McGovern]

3. Spectacular Old Crank! That's quite some organ.

[Old Crank]

15. It sure is

Here is a link to Atlas Obscura
17,000 pipes....

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/europes-largest-pipe-organ

[Diamond_Dog]

4. What a stunning example of craftsmanship!

It is just beautiful!

[MIButterfly]

5. Beautiful photos of a beautiful cathedral, Old Crank

Thank you for sharing them with us.

[Old Crank]

16. Thanks

just trying to lighten the mood a bit.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Breathtakingly beautiful and ornate and amazing photos! Thanks for sharing this with us!

And I looked it up, it's from 1688!

[Old Crank]

17. Thanks

They have some old monuments around here.

[PatSeg]

7. It is hard to imagine all the craftsmen

it took to create this. Meanwhile, we are blessed that so many masterpieces have been preserved and cared for over the years.

Wonderful photos. What camera did you use?

[Old Crank]

18. I have an older Nikon

D5200 DX 18-300 3.5-6.3 VR zoom
So about 24-400 standard 35. It close focuses to about 18 inches. It is just a ridiculous lens.

I have somewhere near 30,000 shots on the body. About 1,000 thousand rolls of film using 30 shots as an average.

[PatSeg]

24. Thanks for answering my geeky question

The camera model and the lens are usually the first thing that pops in my head when I see photos I like. "It close focuses to about 18 inches" - sounds like an amazing lens!

[Old Crank]

28. George McGovern's

sister or sister in law has the same set up.
He said she never uses any other lens.
In some of these churches I would like to be a little wider than 18 (24 equiv.)
but don't want to shell out and carry the extra lens.

[PatSeg]

29. I can relate

I have too much of everything and then it becomes hard to decide which camera and/or lens to take with me. Whatever I take, I end up wishing I'd taken something different. I don't get out much anymore however, so it is not a big deal these days.

Meanwhile, most everything I own is Nikon, though I have a couple of Panasonic cameras that I use occasionally.

[Old Crank]

30. Shortly after I moved to Germany

I did amassive cull of everything but the D5200. IAnd my tripod.
I sold of my FM2, and lenses. Including my faves, 75-150, 70-200 f2.8
I donated another film Nikon to the local community college that was one of the ones with more electronics, plus studio lights and drops. The last one to go was my Zone VI 4X5. Plus all it's paraphanalia. Our little photo group had a joke that the next piece of camera equipment was going to be a pack mule.....

[PatSeg]

31. It must have been hard parting with those lenses

My favorites tend to vary depending on what I am photographing and where. My 11 year old grandsons are going to inherit a lot of photographic equipment, that is if cameras are still relevant when they grow up. I've been teaching them to use cameras since they were toddlers. I bought some simple used ones on eBay when they were very little and they really got into it. Now they want to make movies!

One of my favorite lenses is the Tokina AF 100mm F/2.8 Macro at-X 100AF PRO D - Nikon, but it isn't much use for wildlife, except for bees and butterflies.

[MuirHero]

8. Awesome!

Thanks for sharing those beautiful photos!

[Old Crank]

19. You are welcome

I also like pictures from the others on this feed. Places, things that I'm unlikely to see.

[Cheezoholic]

9. Gorgeous! I'm a bit of an old pipe organ buff. Many of the building's were built around the instruments due to size

of the instrument. They are amazingly complex instruments and sound even more amazing in person. The organists are true masters as these things are very very hard to play. I was lucky enough to hear that very organ and tour the inner workings many years ago! Many Cathedral organs have separate groups of pipes around the inside of the facilities. The original surround sound! A co-worker of mine was from Passau and took some of us there while at business meetings in Switzerland. A truly wonderous place.

Warning..... Don't fall down the utube rabbit hole for pipe organs, you'll be there for weeks!! lol. Thank you for the memory!!

[Old Crank]

20. I know the feeling

There is at least one person who tours organs in and around Germany. He plays them talks about their technical differences and the like. If you want to look up Fraser Gartshore. Quite a character. He studied music in Edinborough, I believe. He has a series of videos. He is also the musical director for a couple of small churches in North east Germany'

I would love to see the insides of that beast. I got to see one of the local organs and hold one of the pipes. Fantastic machines

[surfered]

10. Beautiful. Been there, but your photos are better.

[Old Crank]

21. Nothing wrong with tha shot.

Thanks for the compliment

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Wow! Overwhelming beauty and detail. The craftmanship is astonishing. Thank you!

[Old Crank]

22. You are welcome

[niyad]

12. Absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing this beauty with us.

[Old Crank]

23. Thanks

It must have been nice to be a bishop back then. Power over everything.

[niyad]

25. And living reasonably well while the peasants probably did not.

[Old Crank]

26. The serfs were essentially slaves

To get out from under the bishop they had to buy their freedom.

[niyad]

27. Thank you. I had forgotten about that.