Fulda Cathedral

Fulda Cathedral is the former abbey church of Fulda Abbey and the burial location of Saint Boniface. Since 1752 it has additionally been the cathedral of the Diocese of Fulda, of which the Prince-Abbots of Fulda were created bishops. The abbey become dissolved in 1802 however the diocese and its cathedral have endured. The willpower is to Christ the Savior. The cathedral constitutes the high factor of the Baroque district of Fulda, and is a symbol of the metropolis. The present cathedral stands on the website online of the Ratgar Basilica, which turned into the burial website online of Saint Boniface and the church of Fulda Abbey, capabilities which the brand new building become intended to continue.

The plans of the brand new church have been drawn up in 1700 by means of one of the greatest German Baroque architects, Johann Dientzenhofer, who was commissioned by means of the Prince-Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras for the new constructing on the advice of the Pope after Dientzenhofer's observe experience to Rome in 1699. The deliberate similarity of the church's internal arrangement to that of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is testimony to Dientzenhofer's go to.