Cathedrals and Churches in Light

Cathedrals and Churches in Light

SpeyerMainz

WormsUeberlingen

The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer*

*For about 700 years, Capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Seat of its Supreme Court 1527 – 1689;

Place of the Diet of 1529 establishing the Protestant

Confession;Cathedral built 1030 – 1100 (largest building in Europe)

Tombs of 7 Roman Emperors

The Imperial Cathedral of Mainz*

City founded in Roman Times as a stronghold of the Roman Rhine army; Bishopric since 350 AD (jurisdiction from the

Baltic Sea to Greenland); Seat of the Chancellor for Italy of the

Holy Roman Empire from 900 AD to 1800 AD; University

founded 1477 AD; Cathedral built 1036 - 1239 AD

The Cathedral of Worms by the Rhine*

City founded in Roman times; bishopric since the 4th century

AD; Ancient Capital of the Burgundian Realm; Place of the

Imperial Diet of 1521 and Protestation of Martin Luther; Cathedral built 1170 - 1230 AD

St. Nikolaus-Church

Ueberlingen (Lake of Constance) with a famous wood altar by

Joerg Zuern (1616)