Trier Cathedral.

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English: Trier Cathedral.

Deutsch: Trierer Dom.

Photo: 10 June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

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The High Cathedral of Saint Peter in Trier, Germany, (German: Hohe Domkirche St. Peter zu Trier) is a Roman Catholic Church in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the oldest Cathedral in the country. The edifice is notable for its extremely long life span under multiple different eras each contributing some elements to its design, including the centre of the main Chapel being made of Roman brick, laid under the direction of Saint Helen, resulting in a Cathedral added onto gradually, rather than rebuilt in different eras. Its dimensions, 112.5 metres by 41 metres, make it the largest Church structure in Trier. In 1986, it was Listed as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of Saint Peter and Church of Our Lady, in Trier. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Catholic Cathedral of Trier, Germany, at night.

Photo: 18 December 2004.

Source: Own work.

Author: Benutzer:Josef Thiel.

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The Cathedral is raised upon the foundations of Roman buildings of Augusta Treverorum. Following the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, the Bishop Maximin of Trier (329 A.D. - 346 A.D.) co-ordinated the construction of the grandest ensemble of ecclesiastical structures in the West outside of Rome; on a ground-plan four times the area of the present Cathedral, no less than four Basilicas, a Baptistery, and outbuildings, were constructed; the four Piers of The Crossing formed the nucleus of the present structure.

The 4th-Century structure was left in ruins by the Franks and re-built. Normans destroyed the structure again in 882 A.D. Under Archbishop Egbert (†993 A.D.), it was restored once more.

The West Vault

of Trier Cathedral.

Photo: 10 May 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Han Wang.

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The West Front, in five symmetrical sections, remains typical of Romanesque architecture under the Salian Emperors. The West End Choir, with its Apsidal semi-cylinder expressed on the exterior façade, was completed in 1196. The Interior is of three Romanesque Naves, with Gothic Vaulting, and a Baroque Chapel for the Relic of the Seamless Robe of Jesus, recovered from the Interior of the High Altar in 1512.

English: Trier Cathedral seen from the Cloisters.

Deutsch: Trierer Dom vom Kreuzgang ausgesehen.

Photo: 16 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Kelisi.

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The Latin inscription, above the clock on the Tower, reads "NESCITIS QVA HORA DOMINVS VENIET" ("You do not know what time the Lord is coming"). The skull of Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, is displayed in the Cathedral.

Deutsch: Innenansicht des Trierer Doms.

English: Interior of Trier Cathedral.

Photo: 16 April 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: LoKiLeCh.

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Deutsch: Innenansicht des Trierer Doms.

English: Interior of Trier Cathedral.

Photo: 16 April 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: LoKiLeCh.

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Deutsch: Trierer Dom, Blick vom Eingang

der Heilig-Rock-Kapelle in das Schiff.

English: Interior of Trier Cathedral, Germany.

Photo: 1 May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Elke Wetzig (Elya).

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