The Three-Hare Window of Paderborn.

By gail in Architecture on Jan 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm

dreihasenfenster

The Paderborn cathedral is primarily a 13th century structure, but the Dreihasenfenster (the Three-Hare Window) was added in the 16th century. Notice that each hare has two ears, but altogether there is only one ear per hare. Here’s a poem that goes with it:


"Der Hasen und der Löffel drei,
    und doch hat jeder Hase zwei."
    [The hares and ears are three,
    and yet each hare has two[, you see].]

Via David Singmaster’s The Three Rabbits and Similar Puzzles


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  1. adam unknown
    Jan 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    ahh – so that’s where the band AFI got their CD cover from..

    see here
    http://www.afireinside.net/images/local/150/6715c829ea594d01851b1cdea5 e9831f.jpg

  2. XuYu
    Jan 4th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    Blasphemy? That’s a stoning.

  3. Florent
    Jan 5th, 2008 at 7:05 am

    This pattern was popular in Middle East under Saladin and the Ayyubid dynasty (12th century). It was recently used in France for the poster of an exhibition about this period :

    http://www.afrik.com/article3524.html

  4. gail
    Jan 5th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    I have a couple of posts at my own blog that deal with the cross cultural aspect and I reference an article on the transmission over the Silk Road.

  5. ted
    Jan 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    You “reference” them?

    Geez, gail. I just lost some respect for you.

  6. gail
    Jan 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    The language, it is a’changin’

  7. Simon
    Jan 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    W00t (ironically used), Paderborn is my home town.


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