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The foundation of the present cathedral was laid in the year 1225 already. The bishop's church built from Baumberger sandstone is 109 metres long, the main building has a height of
27 metres. The towers measure each 55 and 57 metres. The architecture of the basilica is Romanesque, the different annexes are in Gothic building style and stem from the 16th-century.

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In the entrance hall, photographs remember the destructions in the 2nd World War and the rebuilding. But the magnificent Gothic portal at the Cathedral's westside hasn't been rebuilt.

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The, then bishop Michael Keller commissioned 16 modern round windows, arranged into a wheel, for the front building. In the vernacular, it's called
'soul shower', as it reminds one of a shower head. A jewel of the cathedral is the astronomical clock in the ambulatory from the year 1540. In the cathedral's chamber are goldsmith objects and textile art, religious treasures from all centuries exhibited. Today, the cathedral chamber is one of Europe's most important treasure chambers.