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Emperor Heinrich II. († 1024) founded the Bamberg diocese in 1007. He provided it with precious liturgical equipment, relics, paraments and folios. Over the intervening centuries that cathedral treasury was decimated several times. But endowments of bishops and canons made up for the losses. During secularization (1803) many works of art got lost.
All memorabilia of Heinrich and his wife Kunigunde were brought to Munich. The emperors’ coats however were brought back to Bamberg in 1851.

Local History of Bamberg
902: "Castrum Babenberch” is first mentioned in the chronicle of famous historian abbot Regino of Pruehm (840–915) during the so-called "Babenberg Feud”.

1047: Suidger, the former bishop of Bamberg, now Pope Clemens II dies and is buried in the cathedral of Bamberg. His grave is the only burial place of a pope north of the Alps.

1185: A fire disaster destroys the cathedral for the second time. In 1237 the consecration of the reconstructed cathedral took place. The late Romanesque/early Gothic new building is preserved until today. With its opulent decoration with sculptures and ornaments the cathedral of Bamberg is the absolute culmination of German ecclesiastical architecture of the Staufer era.