{"id":2278,"date":"2018-07-06T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:04:35","slug":"06-05-2018-besuch-bei-don-justo-visiting-don-justo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"06.05.2018: Besuch bei Don Justo \/ Visiting Don Justo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am Samstag hatten wir ja Madrid erkundet, also war es am n\u00e4chsten Tag Zeit, mal ein bisschen raus zu fahren. Und was passt am Sonntag besser als eine Kathedrale?<\/p>\n

On Saturday we had explored Madrid, so the next day it was time to get out of the city for a bit. And what would be more fitting for a Sunday than a cathedral?<\/p>\n

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Und wenn das hier jetzt nicht so sehr nach einer Kathedrale aussieht, wie man sie erwartet h\u00e4tte, dann ist das auch keine gro\u00dfe \u00dcberraschung: der Baumeister ist n\u00e4mlich ein Autodidakt. Angefangen hat er bei Null …<\/p>\n

And if now this looks not exactly like the kind of cathedral that you would expect, then that is not such a big surprise: because the builder is a totally self-taught person. He started from scratch …<\/p>\n

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Eigentlich war er M\u00f6nch. Doch er musste das Kloster verlassen, weil er an Tuberkulose litt. Nach seiner \u00fcberraschenden Genesung begann er 1961, auf einem geerbten Grundst\u00fcck eine Kathedrale zu bauen.<\/p>\n

Originally he was a monk. But he had to leave the monastery, because he suffered from tuberculosis. In 1961, after his surprising recovery, he started to build a cathedral on a piece of property he had inherited.<\/p>\n

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Und seitdem baut er einfach. Er hat keine Ausbildung als Architekt, Maurer, Statiker … er baut einfach immer weiter.<\/p>\n

And since then he has been simply building. He has no training as an architect, a mason, a structural engineer … he simply keeps building.<\/p>\n

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Der Petersdom in Rom ist eine seiner Inspirationen, und er legt gro\u00dfen Wert auf viel Raum, viel Licht, viel Leichtigkeit.<\/p>\n

St. Peter’s in Rome is one of his inspirations, and he stresses the importance of much space, much light, much airiness.<\/p>\n

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Es gibt bunte Fenster, die weniger nach Kirche und mehr nach einem Spielzimmer aussehen.<\/p>\n

There are colourful windows that look not very churchy, but rather like in a playroom.<\/p>\n

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Alles ist unfertig, \u00fcberall gibt es Elemente, die schon fertig aussehen, umgeben von ganz viel Baustelle.<\/p>\n

Everything is unfinished, everywhere you see details that look complete, surrounded by a lot of construction.<\/p>\n

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Auf dem Boden gibt es auch Verf\u00e4rbungen, weil es ja noch fast \u00fcberall hereinregnen kann.<\/p>\n

On the floor you will spot discolourations, because in most places the rain gets in unhindered.<\/p>\n

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Und nicht nur der Regen, nat\u00fcrlich.<\/p>\n

And not just the rain, of course.<\/p>\n

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Justo Gallego Martinez, genannt Don Justo, hat hier und da ein paar Helfer, aber das meiste macht er selber, Tag f\u00fcr Tag.<\/p>\n

Justo Gallego Martinez, known as Don Justo, has a few helpers here and there, but he does the most work himself, day after day.<\/p>\n

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Und nat\u00fcrlich ist so ein Bau teuer, also nutzt Don Justo alles, was er kriegen kann: die Ziegelsteine sind Ausschuss aus einer nahen Ziegelfabrik.<\/p>\n

And of course such a project is expensive, so Don Justo makes use of whatever he can get: the bricks have been discarded at a nearby brick-making plant.<\/p>\n

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F\u00fcr die S\u00e4ulen nimmt er zum Beispiel Farbeimer als Gussform.<\/p>\n

For the pillars, for example, he uses paint buckets as moulds.<\/p>\n

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Die Leute in der Gegend haben ihn lange bel\u00e4chelt … aber Don Justo baut jetzt schon seit \u00fcber 50 Jahren.<\/p>\n

The people in the area first didn’t take him seriously … but Don Justo has been building for over 50 years now.<\/p>\n

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Die Vollendung seiner Kathedrale wird er wohl nicht mehr erleben, er ist jetzt immerhin schon \u00fcber 80 Jahre alt.<\/p>\n

He will most probably not live to see the completion of his cathedral, after all he is already in his eighties.<\/p>\n

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Aber vielleicht ist das auch gut so … was w\u00fcrde er denn machen, wenn sein Werk vollendet w\u00e4re?<\/p>\n

But maybe that is for the best … what would he do, once his creation was\u00a0 finished?<\/p>\n

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