Each of these curia has its own courtyard, as well as a chapel, after whose patron saint the whole courtyard was named. Most of the preserved curia were built between the 15th and 18th century or were subsequently baroqueised. The probably oldest curia among the courts is the “Curia St. Laurentii”, which was built around the year 1200.
18. April 2018
Each of these curia has its own courtyard, as well as a chapel, after whose patron saint the whole courtyard was named. Most of the preserved […]
18. April 2018
The order could really gain a foothold with the construction of its institute house in 1717. The church was completed almost twenty years later, in 1737. […]
18. April 2018
The building itself is a post-classical town house built in 1871, which was rebuilt in 1906 to serve as an official bank house. The company history […]
18. April 2018
Exceptional are the portraits of Prince Rupprecht and Princess Marie Gabriele, who married in 1900 and thus became the last Bavarian Crown Couple, as well as […]
18. April 2018
Until the 18th century, the monastery served the Bamberg Dominicans as a religious house and for representative purposes. With the secularization the Franciscans also lost their […]
18. April 2018
Until the middle of the 19th century, the area of today’s square was considered as a flood area and therefore contained only comparatively simple houses. Rifle […]
18. April 2018
Apparently the rise of the groundwater had caused the coffins to stand in the water and the deceased did not rot properly as a result. Due […]
18. April 2018
An example of this is the 1717 baroque “Haus zum Saal”, with its striking red stepped gable. Better known by the Bambergers as the Wallenstein House, […]
18. April 2018
The Gate and the origins of Jewish history in Bamberg The Jewish history of Bamberg dates back to the 11th century. Historical sources show that the […]
