German Icons - The buildings that made Germany

Cologne Cathedral
The Frauenkirche in Dresden
The Castle at Neuschwanstein

Genius, arrogance, or madness? What does it take to create buildings like these?

They dominate their surroundings, famous throughout the world, synonymous with the city or the whole region that they helped to model. Each was way ahead of its time, and still has the experts wondering:
How did they do it? - or - Why?

With drama and state-of-the-art CGI, this blue-chip documentary series explores the epic story of their construction and revisits the triumphs and disasters they have known.

3 x 52’ / 3 x 45’, HDTV - 16:9
ZDF