3D print Speyer Cathedral
A free, printable model of Speyer Cathedral's four towers, domed crossing and long nave, with the green lawns, paths and nearby buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Speyer Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral stands in Speyer, Germany, as a historic religious building, and the Roman Catholic bishop of Speyer has his seat there. Its usual name is the Kaiserdom zu Speyer, meaning Imperial Cathedral of Speyer. Conrad II began the work in 1030, and the east end and high vault were built between 1090 and 1103. It is a triple-aisled vaulted basilica made of red sandstone, and UNESCO added it to the World Heritage List in 1981.
In 1025, Conrad II ordered construction of the largest church of the Christian Western world, which was also to be his last resting place. It rose where an earlier basilica had stood, on a plateau alongside the Rhine yet safe from high water, using red sandstone from the Palatine Forest's mountains. Conrad died in 1039 while building was under way, and the nearly finished cathedral was consecrated in 1061. Around 1090, Emperor Henry IV had the nave raised by five meters. The expanded cathedral, Speyer II, was finished in 1106, measuring 134 m (444 Roman feet) long and 43 m (111 Roman feet) wide.
Emperors and kings of the Salian, Staufer and Habsburg dynasties are buried there, and the cathedral is seen as a symbol of imperial power. In all, eight emperors and kings were laid to rest there, the last in 1308. Since the Abbey of Cluny lies in ruins, it ranks as the largest surviving Romanesque church. During Henry IV's changes, an outside dwarf gallery, a row of arches set back into the wall thickness, was added; it circles the top of the apse and runs below the roofline.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 19 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 24 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 31 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Four slender towers
- Four tall towers with pointed roofs flank the east and west ends. Print friendly adapts these thin tips to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints, and printing slowly with cooling helps.
- Arches along the long walls
- Rows of small arches run along the long walls under the roofline. A larger print keeps them readable, and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Speyer Cathedral is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Speyer Cathedral takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Speyer Cathedral is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Speyer Cathedral STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Speyer Cathedral grows with the print: about 19 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
