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Lübeck Cathedral
The Romanesque Cathedral, a three-nave pinnacled basilica, may well be Lübeck's oldest architectural monument. After the city became the see of the bishopric, in 1160, Henry the Lion laid the foundations to the mighty brick building in 1173. A wooden church had been built on the same location before. During the air raids on Lübeck in 1942, the Cathedral suffered severe destruction, with the vaults collapsing. Reconstruction did not commence until 1960, after St. Mary's had been rebuilt. The rebuilding of the Paradise in 1982 brought restoration efforts to a successful conclusion. The Lübeck Cathedral houses several works of art, perhaps most prominently the 53-foot-tall Triumphal Cross by Bernt Notke (1477). The astronomical clock that was added in 1625 is still running with its original works. Only the cloister in the south transept (to the museum in the cathedral) remains from the former monastery. Address: |
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