Speyer Cathedral is a cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer. Its official name is the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen. It was raised to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius XI in 1925.
Speyer Cathedral was built by Conrad II, the Holy Roman Emperor, in AD 1030. Its triple-aisle design, finished in red sandstone had a big influence on the development of Romanesque architecture in the 11th and 12th centuries. Speyer Cathedral is the burial site of a number of German kings and emperors and is regarded as a symbol of imperial power. It is the largest Romanesque church after the Abbey of Cluny, which was destroyed in 1790.
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