Domschatzkammer (Cathedral Treasury)

Entrance from the interior of the cathedral. The Cathedral Treasury (Domschatzkammer, fee) does not represent a museum but a collection of religious artefacts from over the centuries which could still be employed in church services: twelfth-century censors, baroque monstrances, croziers from seven centuries, to name a few.

The most prized object, and one of the oldest, is the St. Andrew portable altar from the tenth century, an oaken shrine covered with ivory plates, enamel and gold filigree work and containing the sole of St. Andrew's Sandal. Even older are the Holy Nail relic with its Carolingian reliquary and a fifth-century Byzantine reliquary procession cut from an unusually large elephant tusk. Also of great interest are the camel-hair cap and the ninth-century prayer book of St. Simeon, in whose honor the St. Simeon's churches were built into the Porta Nigra.

Rounding off the collection are several illuminated gospels from the twelfth century with elaborate book covers. Cathedral tours: reservations in the Cathedral office.