IT’S MY FAVORITE GARGOYLE BACK AGAIN FOR WINTERTIME.
I want to know the exact conversation that lead to the creation of this abomination
Ye olde German architect: “ok, it’s time to put in the rainspouts and last night I was out with the lads and Hans had too much and the point is I had the FUNNIEST idea…” *Holds up drawing*
Ye olde German Architect Supervisor: * snorts beer out of his nose.* “YES. BUILD IT IMMEDIATELY.”
That’s gussy babe
Sooooo I just came back from studying in Freiburg and went on a tour of the Münster with a historian who knew all of the insider secrets and the story is even better than you think.
It took more than 300 years to build the Freiburger Münster (1200s-1500s), so they went through a lot of architects and people who paid those architects. Some of the patrons were dicks and one of those dicks lived in a house right next to the Münster. The asshat kept demanding they work faster and changed his mind every five hours about what he wanted and THEN he refused to pay the architects because he wasn’t happy with what they’d done.
That really pissed the builders off so in retaliation, the head architect built the butt gargoyle facing his house so that every morning for the rest of his life, when the dick looked out his window at the Münster, he’d have to look at a gargoyle butt.
So, the defecating gargoyle is a big fat “fuck you” to someone’s dick of a boss that has survived 500 years and two world wars
The Dreamers: “In a moment we were under the wild winter moon, in a tight embrace.”
The Monkey: “…one by one they dropped their slight garments on the floor and quite naked they walked up to the mirror and looked into it…”
The Old Chevalier: “When she rode so madly, when she surrounded herself with admirers, she had her eye on him, as a competitor in a chariot race would have his eye on the driver just beside him.”
The Deluge at Norderney: “She walked over the moors, grave as Ceres herself with a thunderbolt borrowed from Jove in her hand…”
The Poet: “The dance was more tun a real mazurka, very fiery and light…”
Here for the underdogs 