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The city is one of the oldest cities in Northern Germany, became the seat of the Bishopric of Hildesheim in 815 and may have been founded when the bishop moved from Elze to the ford across the River Innerste, which was an important market on the Hellweg trade route.
Article History. St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim, Germany. Hildesheim, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies southeast of Hannover on the Innerste River in the foothills of the Harz Mountains. Originally it was a fort on the trade route between Cologne and Magdeburg.
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Hildesheim: Rich in History and Culture. Hildesheim has much to offer, and its churches—St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Michael’s Church—are a showcase of especially impressive examples of Romanesque religious art and architecture dating from the Holy Roman Empire.
Hildesheim was a perfect old Saxon town nestled between the Weser and the Elbe Rivers. It had not changed very much in 600 years and was probably one of the most intact medieval towns with her narrow, winding lanes framed by fairy tale timber framed buildings both tall and intricate, charming and even at times comical.
- Bishop Bernward Decorated The Cathedral with Artwork
- The Cathedral Caught Fire in 1046
- Hildesheim Received Its City Charter
- Jesuits Took Over The Cathedral School
- The Cathedral Turned to Baroque Style
- The Diocese Was Reorganised
- Bombs Destroyed The Hildesheim Cathedral
- Diocesan Synod Given An Important New Lease of Life
- Decision Taken to Renovate The Cathedral
993 saw the dawn of of Bishop Bernward's term, which lasted until 1022. Bernward was among one of the great personalities of the diocese. Around the year 1000, Bernward extended and walled in the seat of the bishopric on the cathedral hill. The founding of a Benedictine convent in the episcopal city and the construction of the magnificent St. Micha...
In 1046, a blaze broke out in Hildesheim. From the Altfrid Cathedral, only the eastern choir walls, the transept and the new western Godehard front remained standing. Bishop Azelin (1044-1054) began a new building west of the surviving western front, which quasi-reflected the predecessor but surpassed it in length. The main choir with choir crypt w...
Bishop Konrad II (1221-1246) brought special merit onto the diocese through the establishment and promotion of Holy Orders. The branch of the Franciscans reached Hildesheim in 1234. The city of Hildesheim had its city charter confirmed and documented. In the battle of Dinklar, the Hildesheim troops defeated the numerically superior Brunswick troops...
An important development took place in 1595: the Jesuits came to Hildesheim. They took direct control over the venerable school in the Cathedral and brought it to new heights as the Episcopal Josephinum Secondary School. From Hildesheim, the Holy order also organised a significant part of its mission and the educational work that had significant im...
In the years 1708-1731, the style of the Cathedral’s interior was changed to Baroque. The ceilings and walls were covered with stucco and painted and the Immaculata Altar of Paul Egell was erected in the Cathedral. On 3 August 1802, the political sovereignty of the prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim came to an end with the occupation of the Hildesheim ...
The papal bull (deed) "Romanorum Pontificum Impensa" reorganised the Hildesheim diocese. It was assigned the entire eastern part of the new Kingdom of Hannover. The Duchy of Brunswick was incorporated in 1834. The diocese thus extended from the North Sea to Hannoversch Münden and from the Weser to the Elbe and the Harz mountains. That has not chang...
Der Dom nach der Bombardierung am 22. März 1945. The Cathedral after the bombing on 22 March 1945. Not even a hundred years later, the diocese of Hildesheim experienced one of its darkest hours: on March 22, 1945, Allied bombs hit the cathedral. The Episcopal church was razed to the ground. In 1950, the decision was made for the reconstruction of t...
Between 1989 and 1990, a Diocesan Synod that had been convened by Bishop Josef Homeyer (1983-2004) under the motto "A new kind of church" gave invaluable impetus for further development. Since Homeyer, thousands of children and young people from across the diocese come together in the cathedral every year for Chrism and carol singer mass.
In 2008, Bishop Norbert Trelle (since 2006) and the Cathedral chapter decided to fundamentally renovate the Cathedral by the Diocese anniversary in 2015. Two years later, the renovation that was begun is completed on 15 August 2014.
History. Hildesheim Town Hall, c.1895. Hildesheim is one of the oldest cities in North Germany. The city may have been founded when the bishop moved from Elze to the Innerste ford, where it was an important market on the Hellweg trade route.
The Hildesheim Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary is one of the oldest cathedrals in Germany. Its architectural history goes back to the 11th century, but the history of its origin reaches as far back as the year 815.
