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Postage stamps: sights - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2004 - 5 Euro Cent

Designer: Sibylle und Fritz Haase

Postage stamps: sights - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2004 - 5 Euro Cent


Theme: Architecture
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date2004
Face Value 5.00 
PerforationK 14
Printing Typeindirect 2-color letterpress
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2254
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID866103
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The Benedictine monk and missionary Boniface, who went down in history as the holy Boniface, built around the year 728 a St. Mary's Church on the present Cathedral Hill in Erfurt. In 742 he appointed her to the episcopal church of the Diocese of Erfurt. It had to be demolished because of larger structural damage, but was rebuilt in 1154 as a Romanesque basilica with a three-nave nave, a transept and two towers on the east side. On March 25, 1349, the foundation stone was laid for an extension to the east, the High Choir. From 1455, a late-Gothic hall was built in place of the three-nave Romanesque building, which is still used today for worship. The 17-meter-high high altar of 1697, with its twelve life-size figures of saints, is a work of baroque woodcarving. The cathedral is the landmark of Erfurt, together with the neighboring parish church of St. Severi.

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The Benedictine monk and missionary Boniface, who went down in history as the holy Boniface, built around the year 728 a St. Mary's Church on the present Cathedral Hill in Erfurt. In 742 he appointed her to the episcopal church of the Diocese of Erfurt. It had to be demolished because of larger structural damage, but was rebuilt in 1154 as a Romanesque basilica with a three-nave nave, a transept and two towers on the east side. On March 25, 1349, the foundation stone was laid for an extension to the east, the High Choir. From 1455, a late-Gothic hall was built in place of the three-nave Romanesque building, which is still used today for worship. The 17-meter-high high altar of 1697, with its twelve life-size figures of saints, is a work of baroque woodcarving. The cathedral is the landmark of Erfurt, together with the neighboring parish church of St. Severi..