Peter Langer- Associated Media Group Image Library Photo Number / DENIHIL00017
Images of the St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim World Heritage Site |

Bronze column dating from 1020, adorned with reliefs from the life of Christ & chandelier in the form of a wheel in the transept crossing of St. Mary's Cathedral, Hildesheim. This monumental work of art, made of gilded sheet copper, measures 6 m in diameter. Its trimming of twelve turrets, on which the names of various prophets, apostles and virtues have been recorded, is to be understood as a reference to the Heavenly Jerusalem