Back كاتدرائيه القديس جيرون ARZ Царква Святога Гера (Кёльн) Byelorussian St. Gereon (Köln) German Basílica de San Gereón Spanish Basilique Saint-Géréon de Cologne French Szent Gereon-templom Hungarian Basilika Santo Gereon, Köln ID Basilica di San Gereone Italian Sint-Gereonkerk (Keulen) Dutch Kościół Świętego Gereona w Kolonii Polish
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St. Gereon's Basilica (Basilika Sankt Gereon) is a German Roman Catholic church in Cologne, dedicated to Saint Gereon, and designated a minor basilica on 25 June 1920.
In the core of St. Gereon, significant remains of an oval central building with nine conches from the second half of the 4th century (between 350 and 365) have been preserved. This, the lower part of today's decagon, is one of the most important examples of ancient representative architecture north of the Alps and, alongside the somewhat older Trier Cathedral (core building around 340) and the Trier Aula Palatina of Constantine the Great (around 311), which has been used as a church since 1856, is one of the oldest still existing Sacred buildings in Germany.
The first mention of a church at the site, dedicated to St. Gereon, appears in 612. However, the building of the current choir gallery, apse, and transepts occurred later, beginning under Archbishop Arnold II von Wied in 1151 and ending in 1227.[1] It is one of twelve great churches in Cologne that were built in the Romanesque style.[2]
- ^ Wietzorek, Paul. Das historische Köln. Michael Imhof Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2006, p. 162.
- ^ Sacred Destinations:, The Twelve Romanesque Churches of Cologne (accessed 2011-04-17)