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The Cathedral of Magdeburg, officially called the Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice (known as Magdeburger Dom in German) was the first Gothic cathedral in Germany and with a height of 99,25 and 100.98  m, it is the tallest cathedral in the former East Germany. The cathedral is in Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and is also home to the grave of Otto I the Great.

The first church built in 937 at the location of the current cathedral was an abbey called St. Maurice, dedicated to Saint Maurice. The current cathedral was constructed over the period of 300 years starting from 1209, and the completion of the steeples took place only in 1520. Despite being repeatedly looted, the Cathedral of Magdeburg is rich in art, ranging from antiques to modern art. More...

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• May 2013, 200 year anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner. Deutsche Welle, 2013-05-22
• On 22 May 2013 Social Democratic Party of Germany got 150 year old and in Leipzig organisation Progressive Alliance was found. Deutsche Welle, 2013-05-22
• In January 2013 CDU politican David McAllister lost against SPD politican Stephan Weil in the Lower Saxony state election, 2013. Deutsche Welle, 2013-01-20
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Anniversaries for May 25

• 1595 – Death of poet and critic Valens Acidalius
• 1848 – Death of poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
• 1882 – Birth of diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker
• 1988 – Death of physicist Ernst Ruska, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics

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• ... that Krake (pictured) was Germany's first ever Dive Coaster?
• ... that Erhard Egidi conducted at the Neustädter Kirche both the first performance after more than 300 years of a funeral music by the church's first organist and Bach's Mass in B minor?
• ... that in 1832, Duchess Marie of Württemberg became the stepmother of her first-cousin, Prince Albert?
• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
• ... that poetess Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (pictured) ended her text for Bach's cantata Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68, for Pentecost Monday with a quotation from the Gospel?
• ... that Martin Krumbiegel sang the tenor part in Bach's cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder (Resound, ye songs) and his "Pipe Aria"?
• ... that the late Gothic church St. Lamberti in Hildesheim was rebuilt after destruction in World War II, but a southern annex was kept in ruins as a memorial?
• ... that the East German Communist Party and the West German Social Democratic Party could both trace their lineage back to the 19th century Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany?
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