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The Hamburg Cathedral has its origins in the 11th century: traders and craftsmen, but also jugglers and quacks sought shelter from the wind and weather in what was then the Hamburg Mariendom on Speersort. Burchard Grelle, who as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bremen was also a canon of Hamburg, was disturbed by this and so he banned the showmen from the building in 1334. However, even the churchgoers took offense at this. Archbishop Burchard then expressly permitted the traders to be present in the cathedral in 1337, but only in "Hamburg's bad weather". And so the market remained in the cathedral until the building was demolished in 1804. After that, the traders and showmen wandered through the Hamburg districts without a fixed location and spread out across the city's market squares: the Gänsemarkt, the Pferdemarkt, the Zeughausmarkt and finally the Großneumarkt. The market traders were not allocated a new location until 1893: the Heiligengeistfeld, where the Hamburg Cathedral can still be found today. After the Second World War, the original Winterdom (Dom-Markt) was joined by the Sommerdom (Hummelfest) in 1947 and the Frühlingsdom (Spring Festival) in 1948. With its three events lasting four weeks each (spring, summer and winter), the Hamburger Dom is the largest folk festival in northern Germany and the longest folk festival in Germany. #hamburg #hamburgerdom #kirmes