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is on a column in the south part of the cathedral. It shows the
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at initially 135 m. Decay and political tensions caused the cathedral to be torn down between 1804 and 1807. Under the subsequent French occupation St. Peter's along with most of the other main churches in 1813 was commandeered by
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area and that a previous church or cathedral existed on the site. St. Peter's was probably built in early 1189; it was first documented in 1195 as a market church or
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style and was completed around 1418. The bronze lion-head door handles, the oldest work of art of
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