Aachen Cathedral

Aachen Cathedral

Also known as Aachener Dom

Year

805

Architect

Odo of Metz

Type

building

Charlemagne's palace church survives at the core of Aachen Cathedral, an octagonal domed inner space wrapped by a sixteen-sided outer ambulatory and consecrated in 805. Odo of Metz drew on late antique and Byzantine precedents, most directl …

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