Cathedral to Gurk

the cathedral to Gurk is one between 1140 to 1200 in the high-Roman style built Pfeilerbasilika in Gurk in Kärnten, which is considered as one of the most important Roman buildings of churches in Europe. The long stretched Basilika has doppeltürmige west front, loft, one crypt and three Apsiden.

The crypt arranged with 100 columns is the oldest part of the cathedral church, in the year of its Weihung 1174 the grave of the holy Hemma of Gurk here was shifted.

In the little cultivated middle Gurktal are the impressive to see 60 meters high double towers of the cathedral already from a distance.

Front	Hauptportal	over the Hauptportal	Roman Apsis
net-serrate-tightness-curves	glass painting	crypt	Hemmagrab
sketch cathedral (above) and crypt (down right)

literature

• Stary, Othmar, Kallen, Wim van of the: The chamfering cloth in the cathedral to Gurk; Pictures from the history of God with humans. Complaint ford university University of Carinthia, 1994 ISBN 3-85378-420-8

Web on the left of

• http://www.dom-zu-gurk.at/

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