| The monumental crown of lights,
sponsored by bishop Hezilo in 1061 after the
reconstruction of the Cathedral, rises up
above the high altar today.
Until its wartime evacuation the Hezilo-Candelabrum
hung in the main section of the Cathedral.
This romanesque wheel-candelabrum, with
its twelve towers and portals symbolizes
the heavenly Jerusalem, to which the candelabrum´s
inscriptions refer as well.
The Revelation speaks of a "Holy city,
the new Jerusalem" (Rev 21,10ff), with
its doors always open and in which God gathers
his people.
Among those four medieval crowns that have
been preserved (apart from Hildesheim also
in Aachen´s Cathedral and on the ´Grosscomburg´)
the Hezilo-Candelabrum is the oldest, and
with a diameter of more than 6 meters also
the largest worked gold item.
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