Bernward Column

Bernward Column
Bernward Column
	The Bernward Column in Hildesheim Cathedral (since 1893)
Year	c. 1020
Type	victory column
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	3.79 m (149 in); 0.58 m diameter (23 in)
Location	Hildesheim

The Bernward Column (German: Bernwardssäule) also known as the Christ Column (German: Christussäule) is a bronze column, made c. 1020 for St. Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany, and regarded as a masterpiece of Ottonian art. It was commissioned by Bernward, the thirteenth bishop of Hildesheim in 1020, and made at the same time.^[1]^[2] It depicts images from the life of Jesus, arranged in a helix similar to Trajan's Column: it was originally topped with a cross or crucifix. During the 19th century, it was moved to a courtyard and later to Hildesheim Cathedral. During the restoration of the cathedral from 2010 to 2014, it was moved back to its original location in St. Michael's, but was returned to the Cathedral in August 2014.^[3]

^ Victor Heinrich Elbern, Hermann Enger, Hans Reuther, Der Hildesheimer Dom: Architektur, Ausstattung (Die Diözese Hildesheim in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart), Bernward Verlag, Hildesheim 1973 (German), ISBN 978-3-87065-054-4, p 57
^ "The Village Blacksmith". The Age. No. 15333. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1904. p. 18. Retrieved 28 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia. , ...Hildeslieini...cathedral...contains superb work by its Bishop Bernward, who was a notable smith, both in iron and in precious metals. He died in 1022. He cast the bronze gates, 16 feet high, for his cathedral in' 1015. They are unsurpassed as' specimens of early metal work. In the square before the cathedral stands' a brazen pillar of his workmanship. It is 14 feet high, and bears a brass relief of 28 representations of our Lord's Life and Passion, winding round it in a scroll, from the base upwards, after the manner of those of Trajan's column. This Bernward completed just before his death...
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[1] Victor Heinrich Elbern, Hermann Enger, Hans Reuther, Der Hildesheimer Dom: Architektur, Ausstattung (Die Diözese Hildesheim in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart), Bernward Verlag, Hildesheim 1973 (German), ISBN 978-3-87065-054-4, p 57

[2] "The Village Blacksmith". The Age. No. 15333. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1904. p. 18. Retrieved 28 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia. , ...Hildeslieini...cathedral...contains superb work by its Bishop Bernward, who was a notable smith, both in iron and in precious metals. He died in 1022. He cast the bronze gates, 16 feet high, for his cathedral in' 1015. They are unsurpassed as' specimens of early metal work. In the square before the cathedral stands' a brazen pillar of his workmanship. It is 14 feet high, and bears a brass relief of 28 representations of our Lord's Life and Passion, winding round it in a scroll, from the base upwards, after the manner of those of Trajan's column. This Bernward completed just before his death...

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