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Measuring 100 m x 40 m and encompassing 4,000 square metres of internal space, St. Maria is the largest of the
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that should later become the site of St. Maria im
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in shape, with three apses. It has a nave and aisles and three towers to the west. It is considered the most important work of German
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and built between 1040 and 1065. It is one of twelve
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and his sister Ida, abbess of St. Maria im
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Hardenrath chapel with choristers' tribune (second half of the 15th century)
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built on the ruins of the capitol before her death. She was buried in this
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stood upon the small hill in the southernmost part of the first century
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that was built on today’s site of the church in the first century. The
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