Domvorhalle of St. Simon and St. Jude, Goslar

When the collegiate church was demolished, it was decided to leave and restore the vestibule as a museum for the few surviving monuments. Most of the works of art (e.g. the so-called Krodo altar and a monumental Gothic crucifixion group) were brought to the Goslar Museum for conservation reasons and can be seen in the exhibition of sacred art there.

There is a large car park opposite the Imperial Palace. 200 years ago the gigantic collegiate church “St. Simon and St. Jude”. It belonged to the Palatinate District and took up almost the entire area of today's parking lot.
Emperor Heinrich III. The church that was donated and built between 1047 and 1056 was a model for many other sacred buildings in Germany. Because it was customary in the Middle Ages to call monastic and collegiate churches as well as bishops' churches "cathedrals", the magnificent church not far from the Imperial Palace was also given this sublime title.

In 1819 the church “St. Simon and St. Jude” had become so dilapidated that the magistrate had to decide to demolish it. Goslar was so impoverished at the time that restoring the collegiate church was out of the question. Their stones were then used as building material. The outlines of the cathedral are indicated on the pavement of the parking lot, so that the former dimensions can still be guessed at today.

The cathedral porch was completed in 1150. It is the only part of the building that is part of the mighty church building "St. Simon and St. Jude' is left. Today, the surviving monuments from the collegiate church and a copy of the throne of the first German emperors are kept in it. The original is in the Imperial Palace.

The cathedral lobby is only one of two preserved "front doors" to the cathedral. If you see the porch and then look at the slate in front of the porch, which also shows the cathedral, you can imagine how big the cathedral was. After all, the cathedral belonged to the building complex of the imperial palace. At the beginning of the 19th century, the large cathedral was dilapidated and the city was then bankrupt again, as it is today. The big church was auctioned. The new owner was a craftsman who used the large cathedral as a "hardware store". Many houses in Goslar were built with building materials from the cathedral.