Ribe Cathedral/Domkirke

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This is Denmark's oldest cathedral and Ribe's soaring landmark for 800 years, visible for miles around over the flat landscape. Begun around 1150, the church was completed about a 100 years later. The walls were built of volcanic tuff, sailed up along the Rhine and used according to the custom of the time to build a three-aisled church with two towers to the west. Later, two side aisles were added, making it Denmark's only five-aisled church. Today it is both a parish church and the cathedral of the diocese of Ribe. The first north tower collapsed in 1283 and was replaced by the present, larger Commoners' Tower. A tour of the tower takes you past the Cathedral Museum and provides an unforgettable view from the top over the roofs of Ribe and out over the unique marsh landscape. Every day at 08.00 and 18.00 the carillon bells play Hans Adolph Brorson's Danish hymn (1732), "Now Found is the Fairest of Roses" at midday and 15.00 they play a folk ballad about death of Queen Dagmar in Ribe in 1212.

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