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The Palatine Chapel in Aachen is an early medieval chapel and remaining component of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen in what is now Germany. Although the palace itself no longer exists, the chapel was preserved and now forms the central part of Aachen Cathedral. It is Aachen's major landmark and a central monument of the Carolingian Renaissance ...
Aachen Cathedral (German: Aachener Dom) is a Catholic church in Aachen, Germany and the cathedral of the Diocese of Aachen.. One of the oldest cathedral buildings in Europe, it was constructed as the royal chapel of the Palace of Aachen of Emperor Charlemagne, who was buried there in 814.
The statue of St Stephen behind the Hungarian Chapel in the garden of the Cathedral (Sculptor: Imre Varga, 1993) Nowadays, the Chapel of Hungary is located to the right of the main entrance as you enter the main cathedral. The chapel, which, like the cathedral, is in excellent condition, is now an intimate space for quiet prayer in the church. [14]
Several buildings used by the clerics of the chapel were arranged in the shape of a latin cross: a curia in the East, offices in the North and South, and a projecting part (Westbau [21]) and an atrium with exedrae in the West. But the center piece was the chapel, covered with a 16,54 meters wide and 31 meters high octagonal cupola.
St. Anthony-Chapel. St. Anthony's Chapel (German: Antoniuskapelle) is located in Kornelimünster/Walheim, a district of the German city of Aachen.. The chapel was built in 1718 but destroyed by an earthquake before consecration.
The Jesuitenstrasse (Jesuits road) already existed in Roman times and was the Via Principalis a military camp. In 1579 two Jesuits, who held religious services in the St. Anna Chapel, came to Aachen. They however, left the city in 1581. In 1600 the council of the town took the decision to recruit and settle Jesuits in Aachen.
Palatine Chapel (Octagon) in Aachen, Germany, now the central part of the cathedral Lorsch monastery gatehouse, Lorsch, Germany. Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.
St. Anthony's Chapel, Aachen; St. Michael's Church, Aachen; Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum; U. Uniklinikum Aachen; W. Aachen West station This page was last edited on 14 ...