St Stephens Cathedral

St. Stephen's Cathedral is the mom church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. The modern Romanesque and Gothic form of the cathedral, visible these days inside the Stephansplatz, was in large part initiated by using Duke Rudolf IV 1339 1365 and stands at the ruins of in advance churches, the first a parish church consecrated in 1147.

The maximum crucial religious constructing in Vienna, St. Stephen's Cathedral has borne witness to many essential occasions in Habsburg and Austrian history and has, with its multi-coloured tile roof, come to be one of the metropolis's maximum recognizable symbols. By the center of the 12th century, Vienna had emerge as an essential centre of German civilization, and the four current churches, consisting of best one parish church, not met the metropolis's religious wishes. In 1137, Bishop of Passau Reginmar and Margrave Leopold IV signed the Treaty of Mautern, which referred to Vienna as a civitas for the first time and transferred St. Peter's Church to the Diocese of Passau.