St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim

Cultural
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
Photo: Collage by Lokal_Profil St. Mary's: Roland Struwe St Michael's: Heinz-Josef Lücking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Country Germany
Year inscribed1985
Criteria(i) (ii) (iii)

Overview

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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Source: UNESCO World Heritage List — CC BY-SA 4.0