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Churches & Monasteries in Ribe

Ribe Domkirke
Torvet
6760 Ribe
Tlf: +45 75 42 06 19
www.ribe-domkirke.dk Opening hours

Ribe Cathedral (Church of our Lady), the prominent landmark of the town that can be seen for miles across the flat landscape. The cathedral was begun between 1150 and 1175 and completed between 1225 and 1250.

Sct. Catharinæ Kirke og Klostergård i Ribe

Sct. Catharinæ Kirke og Klostergården
Sct. Catharinæ Plads
6760 Ribe
Tlf: +45 75 42 05 34
www.sct-catharinae.dk & www.ribekloster.dk

St. Catharinæ Church and Abbey, founded in 1228 as an abbey for mendicant friars of the Dominican order - in Denmark called The Black Friars. The Present church was built in the 15th century and is the third one to occupy this site.

   The magnificent complex’s Ribe
   Cathedral and St. Catharinæ
   Church and Abbey are the last
   remains of all the medieval
   churches, abbeys, chapels and
   hospitals of old Ribe.

   To wander through the old
   cobblestone streets of Ribe is
   to travel back through time.
   Many of the beautiful buildings
   here can be linked with famous
   figures and with certain periods
   of the thousand-year history of
   the town.

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