Karl Bernhard Kruse – författare

The richly illustrated book provides insights to cathedral‘s eventful 1200-year history,documenting and elucidating the architecture as well as the building‘s unique decorations.It spans the cathedral‘s history from the legend of the Hildesheim Rosebushduring the early ninth century to Bishop Bernward‘s monumental eleventh centurycreations and ¿nally to the destruction and reconstruction of the cathedral duringthe mid-twentieth century.