{"id":954,"date":"2022-10-29T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/?p=954"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:46:06","slug":"954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/blog\/2022\/10\/29\/954\/","title":{"rendered":"Roof St. Stephans Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/stephan-ziegel-100-2-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The roof of St. Stephen&#8217;s Cathedral is characterized by glazed roof tiles &#8211; so-called plain tiles &#8211; manufactured in Po\u0161torn\u00e1 near B\u0159eclav in the Czech Republic. The 230.000 tiles with a laid length of 51 km cover 10,000 m2 of roof in 10 colors and are fastened with two copper nails each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roof structure with a 600 ton steel framework is 110m long, has 35m span and is 38m high. The 60\u00b0-80\u00b0 inclination ensures effective self-cleaning, even though additional manual cleaning is always required, e.g. to remove plant seeds from between the tiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oriental pattern in zigzag was fashionable in the Gothic period, the Saracen carpet in which the most important donor of the cathedral, Rudolf IV, was buried had a similar pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roof of St. Stephen&#8217;s Cathedral is characterized by glazed roof tiles &#8211; so-called plain tiles &#8211; manufactured in Po\u0161torn\u00e1 near B\u0159eclav in the Czech Republic. The 230.000 tiles with a laid length of 51 km cover 10,000 m2 of roof in 10 colors and are fastened with two copper nails each. The roof structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}