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Church in Essen, Germany
Essen Minster
The Cathedral of Our Lady, St Cosmas and St Damien
Essen Minster (German: Essener Münster), since 1958 also Essen Cathedral (Essener Dom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany.
The minster was formerly the collegiate church of Essen Abbey, founded in about 845 by Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, around which the city of Essen grew up. The present building, which was reconstructed after its destruction in World War II, is a Gothic hall church, built after 1275 in light-coloured sandstone. The octagonal westwork and the crypt are survivors of the Ottonian pre-Romanesque building that once stood here. The separate Church of St. Johann Baptist stands at the west end of the minster, connected to the westwork by a short atrium – it was formerly the parish church of the abbey's subjects. To the north of the minster is a cloister that once served the abbey.
Essen Minster is noted for its treasury (Domschatz), which among other treasures contains the Golden Madonna, the oldest fully sculptural figure of Mary north of the Alps.
EssenMinster (German: Essener Münster), since 1958 also Essen Cathedral (Essener Dom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese...
times. Golden Madonna of Essen Golden Madonna of Essen Cross of Otto and Mathilde, tenth century St. Ludger Basilica EssenMinster overshadowed by the town...
Ages, Aachen Cathedral was admired and imitated, as in the case of EssenMinster, the Old Tower in Mettlach and in the Alsatian Abbey Church of Ottmarsheim...
of treasure are accessible to the public in the treasury chamber of EssenMinster. The cathedral chapter manages the treasury chamber, not as a museum...
the Minster and its treasury and were highly valued by his contemporaries, such that Georg Dehio used Humann's line drawings for his section on Essen Minster...
1st century AD) The Essen Crown, the world's oldest lily crown (10th or 11th century), cathedral treasury, EssenMinster, Essen The Papal tiara, worn...
With the creation of the Diocese of Essen in 1958 and the elevation of EssenMinster to the status of Cathedral, the cross became property of the diocese...
Cathedral Treasure Spain El Escorial Switzerland: Treasure of the Basel Minster Reliquary Lucas Burkart: Das Blut der Märtyrer. Genese, Bedeutung und Funktion...
Abbey and the citizens of the town of Essen arrange for the Essen town walls [de] to be erected. 1316 – EssenMinster (church) dedicated. 1390 – Essener...
establishment of the Diocese of Essen in 1958 and the promotion of EssenMinster to the status of cathedral, the cross became property of the diocese...
of EssenMinster to the status of Cathedral, the cross became property of the diocese. The details of the liturgical use of the crosses in Essen Abbey...
the Essen Cathedral Treasury and is among the most significant pieces of goldwork from that period. It was donated by Theophanu, Abbess of Essen, who...
Museum of the Chapter of the Rectory of Aschaffenburg (Germany); in EssenMinster; in the Museum Frederic Marès of Barcelona; in the Museum de la Visitation...
in Ottmarsheim [de], a chapel in Nijmegen [nl], and the Westbau of EssenMinster. The chapel inspired copies into the 14th century and remained a "focal-point...
Munich. Between 1959 and 1962, Gies designed the windows of the choir of EssenMinster and received the Große Kunstpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen ("Great...
The Golden Madonna of Essen is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. It is a wooden core covered with sheets of thin gold leaf. The piece...
of St. Francis in the lobby of the UN City , Vienna Altar frieze in EssenMinster Main altar in the church and altar in the north side apse of St. Pantaleon...
mountainous Eifel area in the south. Bordering dioceses are Cologne, Münster, Essen and Trier in Germany, Liège in Belgium and Roermond in the Netherlands....
buildings held this title. The tallest church building in the world is the Ulm Minster (161.5 m), the main Lutheran congregation in Ulm, Germany. The tallest...
Cathedral of Constance May 30, 1955 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia Cologne Bonn Minster January 14, 1956 Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg Rottenburg-Stuttgart Weingarten...
suffragan dioceses of Mainz and Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Its seat is Freiburg Minster in Freiburg im Breisgau. The 14th Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch...
gold foil worked over a wooden core in the manner of the Golden Madonna of Essen, though figureless jeweled gold crosses are recorded in similar positions...
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