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    Visite Anglais - Revised Version

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    This guided tour summarizes several historical sites around the Strasbourg Cathedral square. It describes a time capsule buried in 1995 that is not scheduled to be opened until 3790. It also mentions the measuring pillar used in the 16th century to test the stomachs of council members, the ornate Kammerzell House dating to 1427, the Phrygian cap placed on the cathedral spire during the French Revolution, and a fake shell embedded in a building's facade that some believe is a real unexploded shell from World War II. The tour provides context and background for several landmarks surrounding the cathedral.

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    This guided tour summarizes several historical sites around the Strasbourg Cathedral square. It describes a time capsule buried in 1995 that is not scheduled to be opened until 3790. It also mentions the measuring pillar used in the 16th century to test the stomachs of council members, the ornate Kammerzell House dating to 1427, the Phrygian cap placed on the cathedral spire during the French Revolution, and a fake shell embedded in a building's facade that some believe is a real unexploded shell from World War II. The tour provides context and background for several landmarks surrounding the cathedral.

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    This guided tour summarizes several historical sites around the Strasbourg Cathedral square. It describes a time capsule buried in 1995 that is not scheduled to be opened until 3790. It also mentions the measuring pillar used in the 16th century to test the stomachs of council members, the ornate Kammerzell House dating to 1427, the Phrygian cap placed on the cathedral spire during the French Revolution, and a fake shell embedded in a building's facade that some believe is a real unexploded shell from World War II. The tour provides context and background for several landmarks surrounding the cathedral.

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    Visite Anglais - Revised Version

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    This guided tour summarizes several historical sites around the Strasbourg Cathedral square. It describes a time capsule buried in 1995 that is not scheduled to be opened until 3790. It also mentions the measuring pillar used in the 16th century to test the stomachs of council members, the ornate Kammerzell House dating to 1427, the Phrygian cap placed on the cathedral spire during the French Revolution, and a fake shell embedded in a building's facade that some believe is a real unexploded shell from World War II. The tour provides context and background for several landmarks surrounding the cathedral.

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    GUIDED TOUR

    By Salomé SCHMITT and Jorge Ivan SEGURA

    The time capsule

    In «La place du château » (castle square) to the right of the cathedral, there is a time
    capsule buried in 1995 in a concrete bunker. Its name in French is « le Caveau du fu-
    tur », a project by Alsatian artist Raymond Waydelich. Basically, the idea is that t he
    time capsule should only be opened in 3790 by future archeologists.

    Raymond Waydelich wrote a book in connection with this art project. The novel is
    entitled « Mutarnotnegra », which means « Argentoratum » if we read it backwards,
    and this was the name of Strasbourg in Roman times. The book, published in 1995,
    tells the story of people and archeologists in 3790.

    In this vault There are different historical documents about Strasbourg in the 90’s:
    recipes, wine, roughly 2000 letters from the inhabitants, a ball from the Strasbourg
    soccer team, and so on.
    There is a metal plate on the ground which indicates the presence of this capsule.

    The measuring pillar/column =>> cette partie a ete developpée par Celia, dis -
    cutez entre vous.

    The « Büchmesser » in German, is a pillar that you can see in front of the
    cathedral, near the pharmacy. It has been built in 1567 and was used for a
    funny tradition in the 16 century. The bourgeois of Strasbourg gathered once a
    year in front of the cathedral to designate their magistrate, and then there was
    a banquet with obviously Alsatian recipes. At the end of the meal, the council
    members put their stomach to the test of the 35cm that separate the pillar from
    the wall. If they couldn’t pass, then a diet was necessary. Classify as a historical
    monument since 1936, the column was restored in 2016.

    The Kammerzell house

    On the left corner of the Cathedral square, you can see this impressive wooden house.
    It is one of the oldest in Strasbourg. Its construction started in 1427 and its half-tim-
    bered facade is one of the most richly decorated in the city. A wealthy cheese mer-
    chant acquired this house, but now it is one of the most famous restaurant offering a
    superbe fish sauerkraut on the menu.
    The Phrygian cap

    To the left of the cathedral, you just have to look up and then you can see the spire of
    the cathedral covered with a tin Phrygian cap, a sort of cone-shaped hat placed onto
    the spire. We must go back to the time of the « Terror », during the French Revolu-
    tion to understand what happened. In fact, the revolutionaries at the time wanted to
    destroy that spire which showed God’s supremacy and therefore This was against the
    idea of equality. But Jean-Michel Sultzer managed to reason with his colleagues and
    proposed to cover it with the symbol of the revolution: the Phrygian cap.
    It measured 10 meters high and was then removed in 1802 and stored in a church
    which was later destroyed during the Franco-Prussian war.

    The Shells

    After that war, Alsace became German for 40 years. In these years, many things hap-
    pened, such as the construction of different train stations, including the one in Stras-
    bourg, or the construction of the Neue Stadt.
    Here, in front of the cathedral something to remain us of horrors in war and to pay
    tribute to all the victims. If you take a look at the « Hôtel Cathédrale » with the blue
    windows, you can in fact see in the corner, to the right of the word « Cathédrale »
    something small and grey which seems to be a camera, but it is in fact a fake shell. A
    lot of inhabitants here believe that it is a real one, that it landed here during the Sec-
    ond World War and never exploded, but that’s not the truth ! Now you know !

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