The richly illustrated book provides insights to cathedral‘s eventful 1200-year history, documenting and elucidating the architecture as well as the building‘s unique decorations. It spans the cathedral‘s history from the legend of the Hildesheim Rosebush during the early ninth century to Bishop Bernward‘s monumental eleventh century creations and ¿nally to the destruction and reconstruction of the cathedral during the mid-twentieth century. The book strikingly re¿ects the unbroken vitality of the ecclesiastical and art historical traditions on the cathedral hill in Hildesheim.