Architectural styles

Bamberg is a real place. We saw industrial area, commercial areas, residential areas, urban areas and historic areas. They are all intertwined into a functional community.

On top of one of the seven hills there is a cathedral that we could visit and photograph. For me the most interesting part however was to stand outside and look at the chronologically arranged buildings from all the major architectural styles of the time. The medevil cathedral was the third constructed on the highest ground after the two wooden predecessors burnt to the ground. Turning right the old Town Hall is in a Gothic style. Across a little break is a Baroque building that had been the Prince-bishop's residence. A little more of a turn and you were looking at a Renaissance building. A history lesson in one spot.

When I think of the Holy Roman Empire, I think of Rome. There was a time from the Early Middle Ages until 1806 when it was German and during a part of that the seat was Bamberg. It turns out there are all kinds of historic things I didn't know and even more that I thought I knew that are wrong. Talk about humbling.