Allerheiligenkapelle Regensburg, Romanesque chapel in Regensburg, Germany.
The Allerheiligenkapelle is a chapel with an octagonal base and a conical roof, featuring a three-part apse and a central room with rounded arched vaults. Medieval wall paintings decorate the inner walls, and colored glass windows flood the sacred space with colored light.
The chapel is dated to the mid-12th century, since its builder Bishop Hartwig II of Spanheim died in 1164. He was the first bishop of Regensburg not to be buried in the monastery of Sankt Emmeram, and the chapel served as his mausoleum. It belongs to the few 12th-century church interiors that kept their original decoration without substantial later additions.
The chapel is named after all saints and displays images of sainted figures on its walls that were created over the centuries.
The chapel opens off the cathedral cloister, but it is closed to visitors for conservation reasons; it can only be seen from the doorway. Plan to view it while walking the cloister rather than as a separate stop.
The chapel is closed to visitors for conservation reasons, so its paintings are known mainly from photographs and research. Among them, the figures beneath the windows hold sceptre-like objects ending in a disc, a form found in local book illumination of the period and read as personifications of earthly power.
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