Würzburg Cathedral Treasure

Würzburg Cathedral Treasury, north entrance of the Marmelsteiner Hof

The Würzburg Cathedral Treasure comprises valuable, artfully crafted ( liturgical ) objects that were used in the Würzburg Cathedral from the 11th to the 20th century .

The permanent exhibition is located in the Marmelsteiner Hof . Episcopal insignia, vessels, vestments, grave goods, embroidered textiles, paintings, sculptures and goldsmiths are presented.

The collection

The cathedral treasure includes objects from the following areas:

• Parts of the cathedral furnishings that were recovered damaged after the bombing in March 1945
• Paintings and fittings that show the changes in the cathedral interior over the centuries
• Grave goods from the bishops' graves
• Liturgical objects and vestments
• Bishop's insignia, bishop swords from the time of the prince-bishops
• Crosses
• Reliquaries
• Coat of arms calendar of the Würzburg cathedral monastery
• Sculptures

Web links

• Internet pages of the cathedral treasure
• Domschatz: Report on wuerzburg.de ( Memento from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ed .: Jürgen Lenssen: Domschatz Würzburg . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-1424-5

source

• The article is based on the article Domschatz from the free encyclopedia WürzburgWiki and is under the Creative Commons BY SA license .

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '31.9 "  N , 9 ° 55' 54.6"  E