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| Page Views: 37 Last Visit to Speyer: May, 2008 | Speyer Cathedral: the crypt by leics - last update: Jun 14, 2008 |
| Bands of red and white on crypt arches |
It is well worth the couple of euros entrance to access the crypt.
It's a particularly big one (the largest in the world, apparently), and contains many points of interest.
It is, of course, the oldest part of the cathedral and the red and white banding of the stone is more obvious here despite the lack of light.
The crypt was (and is) a place of worship:there are seven altars, and an early Medieval baptismal font. It leads to the 'gruft', the burial place of kings and emperors, whose stone coffins with their chiselled decoratioon still lie where they were originally placed. |
|  | | Stone coffins of kings and emperors |
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| Chiselled coffin patterns |
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| | | Four Salian emperors, dating from 1480 |
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| King Rudolf of Habsburg (13th century) |
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| A tiny yet complex piece of stonework |
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craic Mon Mar 9, 2009 20:16 UTC
oh it is so beautiful | christine.j Wed Jul 2, 2008 06:55 UTC
Trinity Church is my favourite church in Speyer. We were so lucky to be able to go inside. I'm glad you liked it, too. |
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