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Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral (German: Mainzer Dom, Martinsdom or, officially, Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz) is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany. This 1000-year-old Roman Catholic cathedral is the site of the episcopal see of the Bishop of Mainz.
Mainz Cathedral is one of the three Rhenish Imperial Cathedrals along with Speyer Cathedral and Worms Cathedral. Since the 12th century, Mainz was one of the ShUM-cities —a league formed by the cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz—which are referred to as the cradle of Ashkenazi Jewish life and as the center of Jewish life during Medieval times.
The reliquary shrine of the Mainz saints is located in the eastern crypt of Mainz cathedral. On the occacion of the recovery of the cathedral and the 25th bishop anniversary of Albert Stohr a reliquary as goldwork was donated depicting the 22 saints particularly venerated in the diocese of Mainz.
It is the oldest church in Mainz, [1] [2] the oldest cathedral in the Germany of today and the only preserved cathedral building from late Carolingian and early Ottonian time in Germany. [ 3 ] St. John's Church is predominantly Carolingian in style, but later exterior additions over many centuries have resulted in the appearance of various ...
The three Romanesque cathedrals of Mainz, [1] Worms [citation needed] and Speyer in the northwestern Upper Rhine area are called Rhenish imperial cathedrals. [1] The construction of Mainz Cathedral was begun about 975 under Archbishop Willigis, then regent of the Holy Roman Empire for minor King Otto III. His seat was already meant as a kind of ...
Cologne Cathedral in Cologne.. This is the list of cathedrals in Germany sorted by denomination.. Some pre-Reformation cathedrals in Germany, now within one of the Lutheran or united Protestant churches (co-operating in their umbrella organisation Protestant Church in Germany) still retain the term cathedral, despite the churches Presbyterian polity which does not have bishops (in some ...
Pages in category "Burials at Mainz Cathedral" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Siegfried III von Eppstein (died 9 March 1249) was Archbishop of Mainz from 1230 to 1249. He in 1244 granted freedom to the citizens of Mainz, who subsequently could run their affairs more independently though their own council; [2] [3] in law it remained an episcopal city.