Regensburg - St Emmeram's Church

On the south side of the old town of Regensburg lies Emmeramsplatz, with the Regierungsgebäude (government offices) and the Benedictine monastery of St Emmeram, one of the oldest in Germany, founded in the seventh century on the site of a Late Roman building (secularized 1803). It has a Romanesque porch (c. 1170), on the left of which is the entrance to St Rupert's Church (remodeled in Baroque style). Straight ahead is the doorway (with three 11th C. limestone reliefs) of St Emmeram's Church (eighth-12th C.). The church has a sumptuous Baroque interior by the Asam brothers (1731-33) and contains a number of magnificent tombs of the 12th-15th centuries (Hemma, wife of King Ludwig the German; Duke Henry the Quarrelsome; Duke Arnulf; St Emmeram). Under the church are three crypts (St Emmeram's, eighth-ninth C.; St Ramwold's, 10th C.; St Wolfgang's, 1052).