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Hamburg Concathedral

Hamburg Cathedral
Cathedral of St. Mary's
Sankt Mariendom
Dom St. Marien zu Hamburg
Hamburg Domkirche.png
St. Mary's Cathedral
Cathedral
Cathedral
Hamburg Cathedral
Location within Hamburg
Cathedral
Cathedral
Hamburg Cathedral
Location within Hamburg
53°32′57″N 09°59′52″E / 53.54917°N 9.99778°E / 53.54917; 9.99778Coordinates: 53°32′57″N 09°59′52″E / 53.54917°N 9.99778°E / 53.54917; 9.99778
Location Hamburg
Old Town
Country Germany
Denomination Lutheran
Previous denomination Roman Catholic till 1531
History
Founded 831
Founder(s) Ansgar
Dedication Mary of Nazareth
Consecrated 18 June 1329
Architecture
Status Proto-cathedral
Functional status Demolished
Architectural type 5-naved hall church
Style Brick Gothic
Groundbreaking 1035
Closed 1531–1540
Demolished 1804–1807
Specifications
Materials brick
Administration
Archdiocese Bremen
Province Bremen

Saint Mary's Cathedral in Hamburg (German: Sankt Mariendom, also Mariendom, or simply Dom or Domkirche, or Hamburger Dom) was the cathedral of the ancient Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg (not to be confused with Hamburg's modern Archdiocese, est. 1994), which was merged in personal union with the Diocese of Bremen in 847, and later in real union to form the Archdiocese of Bremen, as of 1027. Since then this Dom used to be the concathedral besides Bremen Cathedral in Bremen.

In 1180 the cathedral compound turned into the cathedral close (German: Domfreiheit; i.e. cathedral immunity district), forming an exclave of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen within the city of Hamburg. By the Reformation the concathedral was converted into a Lutheran church. The cathedral immunity district, since 1648 an exclave of the Duchy of Bremen, was seized by Hamburg in 1803. The city then prompted the demolition of the proto-cathedral between 1804 and 1807.

The cathedral, in common Italo-Nordic tradition simply called Dom (Italian: Duomo), which is the synecdoche, used – pars pro toto – for most existing or former collegiate churches and cathedrals in Germany alike. The cathedral was situated in the section of the earliest settlement of Hamburg on a geest hill between the rivers Alster and Elbe near Speersort () street. Today's St. Peter's Church was erected right north of the Dom, today's Domstraße crosses through the former site of the cathedral. Curienstraße recalls the location of the canons' courts.


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