Gurk Cathedral
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Gurk Cathedral is a Romanesque pillar basilica in Gurk, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The former cathedral and current co-cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Gurk was built from 1140 to 1200. I
Gurk Domplatz Dom und Kapiteltrakt 10042015 1817
Gurk Cathedral
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High Altar
Hemma of Gurk
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Hemma of Gurk, also called Emma of Gurk, was a noblewoman, Fürstin and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on
Gurk Cathedral
…Gurk was built from 1140 to 1200. It is one of the most important Romanesque buildings in Austria. With its consecration in 1174, the grave of Saint Hemma of Gurk was relocated there from former Gurk Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery she had founded in 1043 and which was dissolved by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg in…
Hemma of Gurk Wearing the Order of the Swan by Sebald Bopp, c. 1500
Fresco of Saint Hemma in St. Leonard's Parish Church, Nova Cerkev (Municipality of Vojnik, Slovenia)