Unique insights and views
The virtual visit to the attic with the gutter of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
The attic
A masterpiece of engineering that replaced the marvel of Gothic carpentry made of 2000m3 of larch wood, the equivalent of a forest the size of the Josefstadt district, after the catastrophic fire in 1945.
Today's roof is 110m long and 37.85m high, 230,000 colourfully glazed tiles define the uniqueness of the cathedral roof.
The gutter
It is almost inconceivable that the roof slope has an angle of 80° at the steepest points.
There is a practical consideration behind this: The high run-off speed of the rainwater causes the roof to clean itself - and so the snow slides off before it can cover the roof's blaze of colour.
The gutter in its well-considered construction did its part.
