Cathedral 'Peter and Paul'

image author: Josef Spang

The Bardowicker cathedral in its present form was built in the time from 1380 to 1485: A Gothic hall church with two plump towers. The Bardowicker cathedral is the protestant parish church 'Peter and Paul'.
Apart from the windmill the cathedral is one Bardowick's landmark.
In the past a simple wooden church was located here, which was replaced by a rubble-stone church around the year 1000. In 1100 a Romanesque basilica was constructed here.
It is also assumed that the two towers (40,89m) might have been free-standing at earlier times and that the portal was added later as a connection.
The cathedral was rebuilt as hall church in Gothic times and the late-Gothic vestry was finally added in 1792. In one of the wall recesses above the south portal is a wood carved lion with the inscription 'leonis vestigium'. It's a memory of Bardowick's destruction by Henry the Lion: 'Die Spur des Löwen' (the trail of the lion).