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Consecrated in 1893, the Domkirche St. Marien is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg and the first Catholic church built in the city since the Reformation, a striking neo-Romanesque landmark in the St. Georg district just east of the main railway station. For centuries after the reformer Johannes Bugenhagen drew up Hamburg's Protestant church order in 1529, public Catholic worship was banned in the city, and only in the nineteenth century did a growing Catholic community make a...