palatine chapel aachen Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/palatine-chapel-aachen Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:43:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 CHAPEL AACHEN, GERMANY http://toursmaps.com/chapel-aachen-germany.html http://toursmaps.com/chapel-aachen-germany.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:36:47 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221033 ODO OF METZ Commissioned by Charlemagne, the king of the Franks (later Holy Roman Emperor), as part of his great palace complex at Aachen (also known as Aix-la-Chapelle), the imposing Palatine Chapel became the emperor’s final resting place and the site of successive royal coronations. Charlemagne’s palace has not survived, but the chapel remains (albeit with extensions from the 14th and 15th centuries) as one of the best examples of European architecture from the so-called “Dark Ages. Charlemagne and his architect-probably Odo of Metz, who is mentioned in an early inscription chose an unusual plan for the chapel, which has

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