Saint Peter's Cathedral, Regensburg

We just made it. This was the one thing I wanted to see in Regensburg. I can't pass up a Medieval cathedral. There are actually two other churches I would have liked to see: Saint Emmeram's Abbey and Saint Wolfgang's to see the relics of said saint. No time though, so we'll definitely need to make another trip to Germany for this.

I have to admit, I thought the relics of Saint Wolfgang were here in the cathedral. I didn't even know where they were (duh, Saint Wolfgang), until I looked up it when we got back to the apartment.

But we saw Saint Peter's, and that was a good start. It was raining again, dark and foreboding. We were both tired by this time, wet, and disoriented. We managed to find the cathedral, but didn't have long inside. The original structure was built in the 700s, it burned down and was rebuilt in the 1280s, and finally finished in the 1500s. It's the seat of the Bishop of Regensburg.

There are relics on display, and we found them. Not Saint Wolfgang, but Saint Berthold of Regensburg (gestorben/died 1272)

We definitely gave this church short shrift. The main attraction of our short visit was the stained glass. This was the best glass we've seen so far, and most of the pictures are the windows. Many, many pictures of beautiful stained glass windows. One thing I miss in Orthodox churches is stained glass. You find them in some, but by and large, stained glass is an art form of the Western Church.もっと詳しく