Town of Bamberg

country. Germany

year of inscription. 1993

criteria. Cultural

In the 10th century, Bamberg grew to be an important town with links to the Slavic peoples from Poland and Pomerania. In 1007, when Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, was crowned king of Germany, he appointed Bamberg as the seat of a bishopric, intending for it to become a “second Rome”. The town prospered especially in the 12th century, and its resultant architecture was to influence other urban areas in northern Germany and Hungary. In the 18th century, it was the centre of Enlightenment in southern Germany, with eminent philosophers and writers like Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and E. T. A. Hoffman basing themselves there.

what. WHS visited (June 2022)

[Canon EOS M50, 10 June 2022]

what. postcard (Germany, 2022)