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

Germany
Date of Inscription: 1985
Extension: 2008
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)
Property : ha
Buffer zone: ha
District of Hanover, State of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
N52 9 10.008 E9 56 38.004
Ref: 187bis

Brief Description

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.