The High Cathedral of Augsburg
(Open daily from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., visits are not possible during church services). Coming from the city center, you can see the unmistakable shape of the Augsburg Cathedral in the north of the old town: in the west the old, Ottonian building (995-1065) with unplastered masonry and the two towers, in the east the mighty, white plastered Gothic choir (1356 -1431) with significant figural portals in the south and north.
Little is known about the cathedral's early days, because in the 5th century AD there were still Roman residential buildings on the site of the cathedral.
A first large building, which was built between the 5th and 8th centuries and can perhaps be interpreted as a church building, was found during excavations in the crypt and in the central nave. A late tradition, according to which Bishop Simpert (around 778-807) had a new Carolingian building built, can be confirmed since 1998: the transept of the Carolingian cathedral was found during the excavations in the Ulrichskapelle (can be seen in the Diocesan Museum on the north side of the cathedral). The cathedral collapsed in 994 and was rebuilt with the help of Empress Adelheid, widow of Otto I, which was completed in 1065 with the consecration of the west choir altar. The nave walls date from this period. The towers were added to the aisles between 1070 and 1075.