St. Peter's Cathedral in Osnabrück began with a first church built in 785, about 15 years after Charlemagne founded the diocese. The Normans destroyed it about a century later. After a fire around 1100, the present church developed gradually, and the article credits no architect for the building.
The style is late Romanesque, with a Romanesque-Gothic west facade, and the interior was mainly Baroque. The central dome is as high as the pillars it rests on. The article lists a baptismal font from 1220, a triumphal cross from 1230 and a rood screen from 1664. Alexander Behnes directed a major exterior restoration from 1882 to 1910.
Incendiary bombing in World War II destroyed the roof with its Baroque domes. The tower was reconstructed in 1946.
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