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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: 1784 architecture, 1784 books, 1784 compositions, 1784 operas, 1784 paintings, 1784 plays, 1784 poems, 1784 songs, 1784 treaties, Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?, Speyer Cathedral, Intrigue and Love, The Marriage of Figaro, Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, Treaty of Paris, Piano Concerto No. 19, Oath of the Horatii, Les Danaïdes, Vienna General Hospital, Treaty of Mangalore, Stephen Hogeboom House, St John the Evangelist's Church, Lancaster, Dardanus, A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Richard Coeur-de-lion, Armida, Royal Castle of Laeken, Sturgis Pretzel House, Dyckman House, 1784 in poetry, Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Governor John Langdon House, Death of Cook, Salem Tavern, 1784 in literature, Rolliad, Soldier's Joy, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Le Bon Père, Severndroog Castle, Fort Prinzenstein, Posta de Yatasto, Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Leal Senado, Ludlow-Van Rensselaer House, Godfrey Shew House, Davis Stone House, Van Voorhis-Quackenbush House, Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, Book of Discipline, Holy Cross Abbey, Virginia, Robert Worthington House, Becker-Westfall House, Caldicott, Huckleberry Hall, Piano Concerto No. 0, Humphrey-Williams Plantation, Holy Transfiguration Church, Gjirokastër, Old John, Little Plain Historic District, New London County Courthouse, Denton House, Joshua Ward House, The Natural Son, The Carmelite, Il ricco d'un giorno, L'épreuve villageoise, 1784 in architecture, John Hoxsie House, The Theatre considered as a Moral Institution. Excerpt: The Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae (German: Dom zu Unserer lieben Frau in Speyer) in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The cathedral, which is dedicated to St. Mary, patron saint of Speyer ("Patrona Spirensis") and St. Stephen is generally known as Kaiserdom zu Speyer (Imperial Cathedral of Speyer). Pope Pius XI raised Speyer Cathedral to the rank of a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in 1925. Begun in 1030 under Conrad II, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of Romanesque architecture during the 11th and 12th centuries". As the burial site for Salian, Staufer and Habsburg emperors and kings the cathedral is regarded as a symbol of imperial power. With the Abbey of Cluny in ruins, it remains the largest Romanesque church. It is considered to be "a turning point in European architecture", one of the most important architectural monuments of its time and one of the finest Romanesque monuments. In 1981, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites as "a major monument of Romanesque art in the German Empire". In 1024, Conrad II, commissioned the construction of the Christian Western world's largest church which was also supposed to be his last resting place. Construction began 1030 on the site of a former basilica which stood on an elevated plateau right by the Rhine but safe from high water. Along with Santiago de Compostela, (begun 1075), Cluny Abbey (Cluny III, begun 1085), and Durham Cathedral, begun 1093, it was the most ambitious project of the time. The red sandstone for the b...