Romanesque style (950-1250)
Characteristics:° Round archs° Very thick walls° Little windows and doors° Pillars° Hardly ornamentsExamples:° Worms Cathedral° St. Peter and Paul Cathedral of Naumburg (good example of Late-Romanesque style with some Gothic elements)° Aachen Pfalzkapelle and Cathedral (only some elements are Romanesque - the Cathedral has more Gothic elements)° Speyer Cathedral° St. Burkard Basilica, Würzburg Construction of Speyer Cathedral began around 1030 and it was consecrated in 1061. In 1980 the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is today one of the largest Romanesque chruches in Germany. You can easily see the characteristics of an Romanesque building. You see the almost plain facade without ornaments as well as the little windows and doors (little in comparison to churches of other epochs).




































