Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Germany

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Requested by Charlemagne, Aachen Cathedral was founded in 8th Century in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Holy Roman Empire, now in Germany. Coronations of many Holy Roman Emperors took place here.

The central part under the dome was a part of Charlemagne’s Palace, named Palatine Chapel. It is the only well preserved part of the palace left from the Carolingian era, and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Many extension building works were executed over the centuries, resulting in this peculiar appearance of the Cathedral with mixed architectural styles (See photo above):

– 8-9th century, Carolingian-Romanesque:
original chapel under the dome and the bell tower

– 14-15th century, Gothic:
Choir, Chapel of St Matthew, St Anne, St Charles & Hubert, St Nicholas

– 17th century: the dome

– 18th century, Baroque:
Chapel of Hungary, entrance porch

– 19th century, Neogothic: West Tower (the bell tower)

See more details about the Cathedral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral

This is a level 3 unique building. The model consists of 10 sub-meshes with additional pinnacle sculpture props.

***Aachen Cathedral prop pack is required for this asset.

Diffuse texture: parts of the stone facade & relief texture, parts of stone window frames, parts of dome roofs, railing, roof toppers are modified from artworks for Canon’s paper model by K.Yoshinaka / STpers. As for my own texture, I focused more on roofs, stained glass windows, sculpture relief details.

Saint statue parts’ meshes and textures are modified from noe-3d.at’s royalty-free models for commercial use/public domain on Sketchfab.

If you play with snow themes, there will be minor UV map bugs showing up on some of the roofs. I will consider fixing this later.

There’s less roof lighting than the real building as the vanilla flood light is very bright. No facade, ground lighting is included as assets with this kind of lighting usually tend to get too bright with street lights and lighting from assets nearby. You have to DIY this part as well as the surrounding fences and small streets. Use Move It for the surrounding beautification.

For the style of Aachen, smaller west European houses, without strong styles or with more medieval features would be a better fit. I recommend building assets by Lost Gecko, street shop props, stalls, and French Lamp Pack by Gèze, Christmas market assets by Titan if you are in a festive mood.

There will be customized cobble tile decal for the square on the north side of the Cathedral, where the Christmas market takes place, and a pinnacle fountain on the south side.

My next building asset will be Aachen Town Hall, which sits on the original Charlemagne’s residence on the other end of the square.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this asset in game. This is my first asset created for this game!