Bonn Minster has no named architect or client in the article. The text gives a broad range of the 11th to 13th centuries and a late Romanesque monastic church built from 1140 to 1250, replacing earlier structures that include an 8th-century collegiate church. The infobox lists Romanesque, and the text notes some adapted Gothic elements.
The article names no building materials beyond a stone spire and Lombard bands on the square towers. The infobox lists a maximum height of 267 feet (81.4 m) and five spires, with no dome. It gives no other dimensions.
It was the de facto cathedral for the Archbishopric of Cologne and inspired Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. One of Germany's first organs was placed there in 1230. Pope Pius XII elevated it to a minor basilica on Pentecost Sunday 1956. A 2014 fundraising drive addressed vault cracks, water damage and aging electrics. The article gives no hours.
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