Talk:Aachen Cathedral

message: Curious about the Aachen Cathedral's role during The Black Death pandemic, if any documentation can be found.
Ccallihan (talk) 03:30, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Death?

message: Sanssouci is currently up for peer review here. If anyone has any comments to make to improve it, I would be very grateful.
:This is not the article for Sanssouci, though.. Brutannica 22:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sanssouci

message: Was there no damage to the Aachen Catehdral and its priceless relics during WWII? Sca 20:50, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Aachen article says it was largely unscathed. Brutannica 22:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WWII

message: Why does it say in the side bar characteristics:
Region Europe and north america how is that even possible???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.116.194.245 (talk) 22:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Anyone know about a big 'lamp' (or better name for this lighting device) situated in the cathedral? It's supposed to be like 15 ft big, made of wrought iron and has candles.
I can't find much from a Google search (web or images). Any help is appreciated. 12.144.160.217 (talk) 01:39, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it, after a second look at the pics here.. " Barbarossa Chandelier" -- beautiful! 12.144.160.217 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:43, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  lamp? 

message: All historical facts are well and good, but why omit the basics?  Take the word "Aachen" out of this article and this church could well be in the Sahara, or on the Moon for that matter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.1.173.227 (talk) 14:59, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the street address?

message: The following statement has proliferated all over the Web:
" ... In 1165, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa again opened the vault and placed the remains in a sculptured sarcophagus made of Parian marble, said to have been the one in which Augustus Caesar was buried."
This does not make it clear that at the time of the death of the Emperor Augustus (Octavian), he was not buried in a sarcophagus. Inhumation was not the custom at Rome at the time of his death. Augustus was cremated and his ashes were installed in the Mausoleum of Augustus at Rome. The above statement gives the impression that Augustus was buried in the so-called "Persephone Sarcophagus" which was used centuries later to re-bury Charlemagne.
If there is evidence that the ashes of Augustus were re-buried in the "Persephone sarcophagus" then that evidence should be referenced. However, it would appear that this could not happen because of the following statement in the Wikipedia article on the Mausoleum of Augustus:
" ... In 410, during the sack of Rome by Alaric, the pillaging Visigoths rifled the vaults, stole the urns and scattered the ashes, without damaging the structure of the building (Lanciani)."
It would also clarify matters if some provenance for the "Persephone sarcophagus" be presented.
Machine-limburgia (talk) 10:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The German article does not mention it. You could ask Kingturtle, who added this ten years ago, for a source. At the time, he mentioned an 1881 encyclopedia. Momentarily, the article only states that such is said, not that it is a fact. For now, I have included a "by whom?"-template. Richard 09:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proserpina (Persephone) sarcophagus and Charlemagne ... 

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message: The Diocese of Aachen only existed 1802-25 and from 1930. "Aachen." The Catholic Encyclopedia. (1907) calls the big church a minster, not a cathedral.  Some earlier English sources (e.g. 1739, 1772) refer to it as a cathedral; my preliminary hypothesis is that they are incorrect. How could it be a cathedral when there was no bishop? The exception I can think of, St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, has a story that doesn't seem to have a parallel in Aachen. 
Some alternative hypotheses:
* there was some earlier diocese of which it was a cathedral, retaining the status even after the diocese was abolished
* it was originally a co-cathedral of a different diocese, e.g. Cologne or Liège
OTOH, if my preliminary hypothesis is correct, then:
* question of what was it called between the early "[Palatine] chapel" and the later "[Aachen] cathedral"? :de:Aachener Dom suggests "Aachener Münster" ([Aachen] minster) or "Aachener Marienkirche" (St Mary's Church[, Aachen]) and also "Stiftskirche" (Collegiate Church). 
* the claim "One of the oldest cathedrals in Europe" is somewhat misleading, since it's been a cathedral less than a century.
jnestorius(talk) 00:37, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'm on holiday (in the land of the Duomo) & I'll take a look again in a week or so. Johnbod (talk) 22:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cathedral without a bishop?