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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, ... 1449: Chapel of St Anne added, initially as an open hall on the lower floor, rebuilt in ...
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.
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.
Above the altar of the Chapel of Hungary is the name of Louis I of Hungary (Ludovico I) and the year of his probable visit to Aachen in 1374 The Golden Cloak clasp of Louis I of Hungary. Aachen Chapel of Hungary (Hungarian: Aacheni magyar kápolna) is a side chapel of the Aachen Cathedral (German: Aachener Dom), one of the oldest cathedrals in ...
Aachen Cathedral. The principal church of the diocese is the Aachen Cathedral, of which the central part, the Palatine Chapel, was built in 800 under Charlemagne. It was also the first German World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1978. The diocese has two churches that have been given the status of basilica minorĖ
Entrance to the Aachen Cathedral Treasury The Ottonian Cross of Lothair Gothic Bust of Charlemagne. The Aachen Cathedral Treasury (German: Aachener Domschatzkammer) is a museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen under the control of the cathedral chapter, which houses one of the most important collections of medieval church artworks in Europe.
Marienschrein at Aachen Cathedral The Marienschrein (Shrine of Mary) in Aachen Cathedral is a reliquary , donated on the order of the chapter of Mary around 1220 and consecrated in 1239. Along with the Karlsschrein , the artwork, which is from the transitional period between romanesque and gothic , is among the most important goldsmith works of ...