AUGSBURG CATHEDRAL
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Augsburg Cathedral is a beautiful building inherited from the Romanesque period and today the most visited monument in the city.
The Visitation Cathedral - more commonly known as the Hoher Dom or simply Augsburg Cathedral(Augburger Dom) - is one of the city's main architectural sights. Its foundations date back to the 8th century, but the building was damaged twice in the 10th century: first by the Hungarian invasions and then by a collapse of the west façade in 994. The subsequent remodeling, financed by Empress Adelaide (Adelhaid), made the cathedral a masterpiece of late Romanesque art. In 2021, the work of researchers allowed the redating of frescoes discovered in the south transept: they were made around the year 1000 under the Ottonian dynasty. This discovery makes them the oldest frescoes preserved north of the Alps (just after the frescoes discovered in Oberzell, which predate the year 1000). The southern clerestory has five superb stained glass windows dating from the end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth century, the oldest in Germany: they represent the prophets David, Jonah, Daniel, Moses, Hosea, and were probably part of a larger series, the other seven having disappeared. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Augsburg Cathedral underwent a new phase of construction and was remodeled in the Gothic style: the two naves and the two Gothic portals date from this period. Victim of the iconoclastic storms that accompanied the Protestant Reformation, Augsburg Cathedral underwent several alterations during the Baroque period, then in the 19th century.
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Les chapelles latérales du chœur sont occultées par la dentelle métallique de portes très ouvragées mais fermées. Pas ou peu d'indication sur le nom du saint à l'honneurs dans ces chapelles .!