Aachen Cathedral, Aachen Germany June 2018 The Karlsschrein in Aachen Cathedral was made in Aachen at the command of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Aachen Cathedral, Aachen Germany June 2018 The Karlsschrein (English: Shrine of Charlemagne) in Aachen Cathedral was made in Aachen at the command of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and completed in 1215, after Frederick II's grandfather, Frederick Barbarossa had exhumed Charlemagne's bones from their resting place in the Palatine Chapel, Aachen in 1165. Aachen Cathedral, Aachener Dom, traditionally called in English the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen, western Germany, and the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen. It is one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe and was constructed by order of the emperor Charlemagne, who was buried there after his death in 814. For 595 years, from 936 to 1531, the Palatine Chapel, heart of the cathedral, was the church of coronation for thirty-one German kings and twelve queens. The church has been the mother church of the Diocese of Aachen since 1802.
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Location: Aachen, Germany
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
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