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Würzburg Cathedral

Würzburg Cathedral

Location
Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Client / Owner
Bishop Bruno
Year
Completed 1187
Access
Public
Typology
Spiritual

Würzburg Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Kilian, has no named architect in the article. Bishop Bruno began construction in 1040, and Adalbero completed it. Balthasar Neumann, Tilman Riemenschneider and Maximilian von Welsch contributed later works. The infobox gives 1040 as founded and 1075 as completed, but the text says the cathedral was consecrated in 1187 after rebuilding that began after 1133.

The article calls the style Romanesque, with Gothic, Baroque and Romanesque Revival elements. It names no main material but mentions stucco, bronze plates and stained glass. The cathedral is 338 feet (103 m) long and is the fourth-largest Romanesque church in Germany.

Bombing in March 1945 heavily damaged it, and the nave collapsed in the winter of 1946. Reconstruction finished in 1967, and the choir was redesigned in 1988. It is an active cathedral and the seat of Bishop Franz Jung. The article gives no hours.

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