Aachen cathedral

In 786 AD, the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne ordered the construction of a cathedral in the city of Aachen, which was to become the main imperial temple. This magnificent architectural monument is considered one of the oldest temples of the Middle Ages, for more than six hundred years German monarchs were crowned here.

The central and oldest part of the cathedral is the octagonal Palatine Chapel, built by architect Otzon Metzsky in the Byzantine style. Charles I collected many Christian relics in the temple, which are kept in the treasury of the chapel to this day. Relics are displayed once every seven years. Charlemagne, who died in 814, is buried in a chapel, as evidenced by a memorial stone in the cathedral floor.

In the middle of the fourteenth century, Gothic choirs were added to the chapel, the Hungarian limit was built. In the fifteenth - several chapels and a glass house in the Gothic style were added to the cathedral.