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Naumburg Cathedral, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul in the town of Naumburg, is an important Late Romanesque, Early and High Gothic building. Especially interesting are the donor figures and sculptures of the western rood screen and works of the Naumburg masters.

The church was built next to an older church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary when the episcopal seat moved from Zeitz to Naumburg in 1028. After the Reformation the first Protestant bishop was appointed in 1541. With the death of the last bishop, Julius von Pflug, in 1564 the bishopric was dissolved and went to the Electorate of Saxony; the church lost its function as an episcopal seat. However, it remains the church of the Evangelical cathedral parish.

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