Limburg Cathedral has no named architect in the article. A collegiate foundation, created by King Louis the Child's 910 deed, stood behind it, and Count Heinrich is credited with the 11th-century basilica. The infobox gives a 1235 consecration. The text suggests a 9th-century church may predate 910, which makes the infobox's 910 founding questionable.
The article calls it an Early Gothic remodeling of an Early Romanesque basilica begun around 1180, a Romanesque-Gothic transition. It is stone, and its polychrome exterior was stripped in 1872 and 1873 and restored from 1968 to 1972. It is about 177 feet (54 m) long, 115 feet (35 m) wide and 217 feet (66 m) high at the crossing spire.
The foundation was secularized in 1802, and the church became a cathedral in 1827. Bishop Tebartz-van Elst was suspended in 2013. It is the diocese's seat and is used for concerts and choir services. The article gives no hours.
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