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Speyer Cathedral

Religious and Sacred Buildings

Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, is a historic religious building in Speyer, Germany, seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bamberg. Dedicated to Saint Mary, the patron saint of Speyer, and to Saint Stephen, it is generally known as the Kaiserdom zu Speyer, and Pope Pius XI raised it to the rank of a minor basilica in 1925.

Facts
Building Type
Cathedral 1
Location
Speyer, Germany 1
Completed Year
1061 1
Construction began 1030 under Conrad II; the basilica was consecrated, nearly complete, in 1061.
Completed Year
1080 2
Height (m)
71.2 1
Height of the taller, eastern spires; the western spires measure 65.60 m.
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Cathedral 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Cathedral, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Romanesque Architecture, Styles and Movements

The largest surviving Romanesque church in the world.

Uses Element

Sandstone, Architectural Materials
Source Wikipedia: Speyer Cathedral
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Speyer Cathedral
Wikimedia Foundation
  • description section
    the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone
  • infobox, location
    Speyer, Germany
  • history section, consecration
    Nearly completed, the cathedral was consecrated in 1061.
  • infobox, eastern spire height
    Height of the eastern spires: 71.20 m
  • standing status determination, wikipedia summary
    It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg.
  • Uses Element: Sandstone, Wikipedia lead
    Begun in 1030 under Conrad II, with the east end and high vault of 1090-1103, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of Romanesque architecture during the 11th and 12th centuries".
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2. Wikidata: Speyer Cathedral
  • Wikidata Q22720, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q22720, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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