Halle Cathedral
Halle , DE
Halle Cathedral was originally a monastery founded by the mendicant order of the Dominicans in 1271 and completed around 1330. In accordance with their rules, the monks did not build a tower and transept. In the 16th century, the Archbishop of Magdeburg had the exterior of the church redesigned by Bastian Binder and re-consecrated it as a collegiate church. Since then, the church has been called "cathedral". With the Reformation and the disappearance of the archbishopric, the church became a castle church. After 1680, the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg ceded the church to the Protestant reformists as a parish church.