With residential buildings, workshops and the actual monastery, which also includes a mighty abbey church about 70 meters long. In the Upper Swabian town of Meßkirch, the famous St. Gallen Monastery Plan is the oldest surviving architectural drawing of the Occident: A formidable challenge, because who still knows how to do such a thing? How do you hammer stones out of the rock, how do you extract iron, how do you hoist beams weighing tons onto scaffolding, how do you cast a bell? Written sources are few and far between. The project will be an adventure in craftsmanship, archaeology, and also a human adventure.
This Documentary follows the ambitious project of building a cloister town with only the tools that where present in the middle ages.
With residential buildings, workshops and the actual monastery, which also includes a mighty abbey church about 70 meters long.
In the Upper Swabian town of Meßkirch, the famous St. Gallen Monastery Plan is the oldest surviving architectural drawing of the Occident:
A formidable challenge, because who still knows how to do such a thing? How do you hammer stones out of the rock, how do you extract iron, how do you hoist beams weighing tons onto scaffolding, how do you cast a bell? Written sources are few and far between. The project will be an adventure in craftsmanship, archaeology, and also a human adventure.