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6 JANUARY / Dreikönigstag / the Feast of the Three Kings Three Wise Kings on the Münster Positioned on the corners of St. George's Tower, a procession of Three Kings faces the Madonna in the gable. Gothic figures in the style of the Parler school of masons, they have lean features and enormous heads foreshortened when seen from below. Originally sculpted in the first half of the 15th c., all have been replaced by copies in the 20th c.  Kneeling King, closest to Madonna; original from around 1420, replaced by a copy
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6 JANUARY / Dreikönigstag / the Feast of the Three Kings Basel's best known Three Kings throne above the main entry of the hotel "Les Trois Rois". These statues, dressed in magnificent robes, are relics from an old inn that used to stand on the Schifflände until 1842. Created originally in the mid 18th c., these kings carved out of larch wood represent the Three Wise Men of the East. Following a good star, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar are said to have travelled great distances before arriving in Bethlehem - they thus became patron saints of travelers, of inns and hostelries.  Statues of the Three Kings, above the main entrance of the hotel "Les Trois Rois" / "Drei Könige" on Blumenrain 8, in Basel
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