30 - Brunswick Lion

In addition to the castle and cathedral, the Braunschweig State Museum (originally the headquarters of the Vieweg publishing house), the Huneborstel House and the Veltheim House are grouped around the Braunschweig Lion on the Burgplatz. The centrepiece of the castle square is the statue of Henry the Lion. Created around 1166, the east-facing lion is the symbol of Henry the Lion and symbolises the city's jurisdiction. Today there is a copy on the Elm limestone pedestal, while the original is preserved a few tens of metres away in Dankwarderode Castle. To the south-west behind the cathedral are the canons' houses from the 15th century. Today's modern paving of the castle square is made of Beucha porphyry, occasionally of Lusatian granite, both rocks from Saxony. The former collegiate church of St Blasii on the southern side of the Burgplatz is now a Protestant-Lutheran cathedral. The church was built by Henry the Lion after his return from his pilgrimage to Palestine between 1173 and 1195 as a three-aisled pillar basilica.

Henry was buried here next to his wife Mathilde in 1195. The tomb of Henry's son Otto IV, German emperor and king, is also located in the cathedral. Initially built as a three-aisled basilica, the cathedral has been remodelled, extended and reconstructed several times to this day. Elm limestone and red-coloured stone were used for the masonry.
Brunswick Rogenstein. Helmstedt rough sandstone was also used at the north portal of the cathedral.
which used to be quarried in numerous pits in the Lapp Forest. Plinths, wall corners, door and window reveals and Heinrich's tomb were also built from Elm limestone. The paving slabs at the cathedral are made of Velpk sandstone.

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