Sassnitz, Germany
3500-2800 BC
Sassnitz, Germany
3500-2800 BC
Tholey, Germany
1st century AD
Otzenhausen, Germany
400 BC
Boitin, Germany
Ostalbkreis, Germany
c. 200 AD
Venz, Germany
9th century AD
Blaubeuren, Germany
41,000 BC
Koblenz, Germany
1200-800 BC
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
500 BC
Grabenstetten, Germany
2nd century BC
Peiting, Germany
100 AD
Degernau, Germany
Bronze Age
Tengen, Germany
1st century AD
Visby Cathedral (also known as St. Mary’s Church) is the only survived medieval church in Visby. It was originally built for German merchants and inaugurated in 1225. Around the year 1350 the church was enlarged and converted into a basilica. The two-storey magazine was also added then above the nave as a warehouse for merchants.
Following the Reformation, the church was transformed into a parish church for the town of Visby. All other churches were abandoned. Shortly after the Reformation, in 1572, Gotland was made into its own Diocese, and the church designated its cathedral.
There is not much left of the original interior. The font is made of local red marble in the 13th century. The pulpit was made in Lübeck in 1684. There are 400 graves under the church floor.