Wurzburger Dom

Mon May 07, 2018 2:00 pm
Germany
Bavaria
Wurzburg
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Cathedral
Lutheran
Medieval
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Gothic
Fresco
Baroque
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If your city (Würzburg) had a Bishop, then you also had a Cathedral.

Würzburger Dom

The interior of Würzburger Cathedral is decorated in Baroque Stucco, but was founded in the 11th Century and has accumulated different architectural styles.

Most of the great Cathedrals in Europe were built near the end of the Medieval Warm Period, which demonstrates that Global Warming creates prosperity. By contrast when the climate was cooler there were plagues.

Are we looking at a Catholic Apse attached to a Lutheran Nave? Perhaps the answer is that Baroque elements were not restored to parts of the Cathedral that were reconstructed after World War II.

Würzburger Dom

This view of the west entrance is controversial, because it was rebuilt in Romanesque-Revival, following World War II, despite being originally built in Early-Gothic.

Notice the Gothic spires in this photo from 1904.

Würzburger Dom
Neumünster

The east end of Neumünster is Romanesque (which predates Gothic).

Neumünster

Like Würzburger Dom, Neumünster, is really old (built in 1060) and now contains different architectural styles.

The interior is Baroque.

Neumünster
Neumünster

The west entrance is an example of late Baroque architecture, because it not only has a symmetrical layout of ornamental elements, but it is also curved in the front-to-back dimension.

This contrasts with, for instance, Chiesa del Gesu, in which the curves in the facade are in the vertical dimension.