UNESCO Speyer Cathedral Germany 15-09-2016

World Heritage Site Speyer Cathedral Germany, videoed 15-09-2016.

Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg. The cathedral, which is dedicated to St. Mary, patron saint of Speyer and St. Stephen is generally known as the Kaiserdom zu Speyer (Imperial Cathedral of Speyer). Pope Pius XI raised Speyer Cathedral to the rank of a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in 1925.

Begun in 1030 under Konrad II.
In 1981, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites as "a major monument of Romanesque art in the German Empire"

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