hildesheim cathedral and st michael's church
states: [germany]
category: cultural
year: 1985
location: District of Hanover, State of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 52.1527800000, 9.9438900000
visited: 2022
St Michael's Church was built between 1010 and 1020 on a symmetrical plan with two apses that was characteristic of Ottonian Romanesque art in Old Saxony. Its interior, in particular the wooden ceiling and painted stucco-work, its famous bronze doors and the Bernward bronze column, are – together with the treasures of St Mary's Cathedral – of exceptional interest as examples of the Romanesque churches of the Holy Roman Empire.
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