World Heritage

Hildesheim Cathedral an its treasures

von Michael Brandt, Karl Bernhard Kruse, Thomas Scharf-Wrede, Claudia Höhl, Petra Meschede

88 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The richly illustrated book provides insights to cathedral‘s eventful 1200-year history, documenting and elucidating the architecture as well as the building‘s unique decorations. It spans the cathedral‘s history from the legend of the Hildesheim Rosebush during the early ninth century to Bishop Bernward‘s monumental eleventh century creations and ¿nally to the destruction and reconstruction of the cathedral during the mid-twentieth century. The book strikingly re¿ects the unbroken vitality of the ecclesiastical and art historical traditions on the cathedral hill in Hildesheim.

• Themen: Kunst Architektur Kirchen, Sakralbauten
• ISBN: 9783795420031
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2007
• Größe: 27 x 21 cm
• Verlag: Schnell & Steiner
• Herausgegeben von: Hildesheimer Domkapitels Hildesheimer Domkapitels