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Generations of workers spent 312 years building the magnificent Cologne Cathedral — and then stopped in 1560, leaving it unfinished for 280 years. In 1840, their descendants picked the project up again and completed it in 1880. Can we talk about what happened here?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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