• Successful_Try543
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    At Colongne cathedral it is/was a scaffold for construction works that was attached to the towers and was moved along the proceding of the restauration.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Köln%2C_Dom.JPG/900px-Köln%2C_Dom.JPG?20140914205916

    Attached to the Lamberti church Münster are three human sized cages which displayed the remains of the executed leaders of the Anabaptists after the 16th century uprising.

    https://wiki.muenster.org/images/a/a3/Lambertikirche3_kaefige_k.jpg

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      Wow, the engineering on that scaffolding must’ve been pretty interesting.

      Essentially cantilivered loads but balanced by the opposing side.

      I’d love to see a 3D graphic of it from an oblique angle - like a CAD wireframe.

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      Thank you. Hope I’m not misremembering to the point that I mistook scaffolding for human sized cages.

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        It looks quite tiny in relation to the entire cathedral and, afaIk, was sometimes smaller than in the photo.