Bamberg - Sankt Jakob

Only a few-minutes walk west of the Bamberg-Cathedral is Sankt Jakob. This church, once center of a collegiate, served the pilgrims on their way to Santiago - and this is still the place, where the "tampon" is stamped into the "credencial".

The collegiate was founded in 1070 by Bishop Hermann I of Bamberg. The crypt of the collegiate church was consecrated already two years later. The "Heinrichsdom", the first cathedral in Bamberg, destroyed by fire in 1185, was still existing at the time, and so served as a model for this smaller basilica-church. Just like the Heinrichdom, Sankt Jakob has two choirs and a western transept. The two crypts were filled within the 18th century.