Bamberg Cathedral

Bamberg Cathedral is a church in Bamberg, Germany, completed in the 13^th century. The cathedral is underneath the management of the Roman Catholic Church and is the seat of the Archbishop of Bamberg. Since 1993, the cathedral has been a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Town of Bamberg. It turned into based in 1002 by using King and consecrated in 1012. After the first two cathedrals burned down within the 11^th and 12^th centuries, the modern shape, a late Romanesque constructing with four big towers, was built inside the 13^th century.

The cathedral is set 94 m long, 28 m huge, 26 m excessive, and the four towers are every about 81 m high. It consists of many works of artwork, together with the marble tomb of the founder and his wife, the Empress Kunigunde, taken into consideration a masterpiece of the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider, and carved among 1499 and 1513. Another widely known treasure of the cathedral is an equestrian statue known as the Bamberg Horseman. This statue, possibly depicting the Hungarian king Stephen I, maximum probably dates to the length from 1225 to 1237.