Willibrordi cathedral

The Willibrordi Cathedral was built as late-Gothic basilica with 5 naves in its present form between 1501 and 1540. It is the old Weseler town church. The tower stems from the years 1477/1478.

The church was redesigned with the help of the Prussian ruling house from 1883 to 1896. The planned ambulatory was also realised.

In 1945 the Willibrordi-Cathedral was heavily damaged during bombing raids on Wesel by the allied forces. In 1947 already the rebuilding started by a 'cathedral building association' in the recourse of the late medieval model by its own cathedral building hut on order by the church community.

The Heresbach chapel is being separated by a wrought-iron grille made by Kurt-Wolf von Borries, Cologne. A suspended ribbed vault, a highlight of late-Gothic masonry in Germany, reconstructed by the cathedral building hut, can be seen in the chapel. A memorial stone remembers the Humanisten Konrad Heresbach (1496 - 1576). He was buried in the chapel.

Very noteworthy during a walkabout through the cathedral is among othersL the large west window in the tower, the new organ in the high choir and a bible donated by the Empress Augusta Victoria.

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