Augsburg Cathedral

The Cathedral of Augsburg is a Roman Catholic Church in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, founded in the 11^th century in Romanesque fashion, however with 14^th century Gothic additions. Together with the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra, it's miles one of the town's major points of interest. It measures 113m and 40 m, and its towers are 62 m high. It is devoted to the Visitation of Virgin Mary. The cathedral is perhaps located at the website of a pre-current 4^th century building, now not always a church, whose foundations had been excavated underneath the present day level; the web site is included within the historical Roman partitions of Augusta Vindelicorum.

The first recognized church within the area is documented from 822, but courting to the late 8^th century reigns of bishops Wikterp and Simpert. The edifice turned into damaged via the Magyars and became restored in 923 under bishop Ulrich. Another repairing intervention happened in 994 when the western apse crumbled down the recovery became funded through empress Adelaide. The current Romanesque structure became commissioned in 1043 by Bishop Henry III and become finished in 1065.