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Tartu Cathedral

  • English: Ruins of Tartu Cathedral
  • Estonian: Tartu toomkiriku varemed
  • Estonian: Tartu Ulikooli muuseum
  • Address: 18 Ulikooli
  • Vicinity: Lossi
  • Type: Heritage Museum
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums

Tartu Cathedral is a 13th century church ruin and heritage museum in Tartu, Estonia. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1225/00/00 Soon after an invitation by Livonians, construction begins on a bishop's fortress, the Castrum Tarbatae. Now lost, Portions of the walls remain.
1275/00/00 Probably begun in the 2nd half of the 13C, the nave of Tartu Cathedral is used by worshipers by 1299.
1500/00/00 Two towers at Tartu Cathedral are completed by the end of the 15C.
1525/01/10 Protestant iconoclasts vandalize Tartu Cathedral.
1558/08/23 Tartu Cathedral is abandoned after Russian troops exile the last Roman Catholic bishop of Dorpat, Hermann Wesel, to the interior of Russia.

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Particulars for Tartu Cathedral:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Building Material Brick
Sight Category Building
Building Use Cathedral
Building Type Church
Museum Type Heritage Museum
Museum Type Historical Museum
Historic Use Religious Property
Disposition Ruin




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