St. Suitbertus
Romanesque tuff basilica by the Rhine, guarding a gilded thirteenth-century saint's shrine.
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This guide to the Basilica of St. Suitbertus in Kaiserswerth, on Düsseldorf's northern Rhine bank, starts with a question about what is missing from its roofline. It follows a promise made in the thirteenth century, the restorers of the eighteen seventies, and what the Second World War did to their work. Inside, it turns to the medieval shrine of Suitbert, the missionary who founded a monastery here around the year seven hundred. Best heard from the square in front of the west front, looking up.
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