example of a medieval northern European trading city that retains the salient features of this unique form of economic and social community to a remarkable degree. Criterion (ii): The Historic Centre of Tallinn, among the most remote and powerful outposts of the colonizing activities of the Hanseatic League in the north-eastern part of Europe in the 13th-16th centuries, provided a crucible within which an international secular-ecclesiastical culture resulting from the interchange of Cistercians, Dominicans, the Teutonic Order and the traditions of the Hanseatic League, formed and was itself exported throughout northern Europe. Criterion (iv): The town plan and the buildings within it constitute a remarkable reflection of the coexistence of the seat of feudal overlords and a Hanseatic trading centre within the shelter of a common system of walls and fortifications. Integrity The boundaries of the inscribed World Heritage property and its buffer zone were modified in
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Despite its length and width its share in the city's inner traffic is fairly modest. The extraordinary width of the street is likely due to the fact that the town wall used to be there and the street then sprang up on both sides of the city wall. But that city wall was eliminated in the construction of a new wall to the west. The freed area became a beautiful wide street with local significance, its main purpose was to create a link between the monastery of St Michael's female Cistercians (founded in 1294) and St Olaf's church. Previous names of the street also refer to it: Susterstrate 1361; Platea sororum 1364-1380; 1606 Süsterstrasse and Schwestergasse, all of which include the concept of a nun or a sister. After the Reformation, the monastery was eliminated and in 1631 a gymnasium was founded in its rooms, but the street name remained in the form of Süsterstrasse and Cisternstrasse. It was not until the 18th century that the name Lai also started to appear
4. Jörgensen, J. Saint Francis of Assisi: biography. New York: Doubleday, 1962. 5. Knowles, D. Christian monasticism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. 6. Lawrence, C.H. Medieval monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Halow: Longman, 2001. 7. Prinz, F. Pühakute tõeline elu: kaksteist ajaloolist portreed keisrinna Helenast kuni Assisi Franciscuseni. Tallinn: Kunst, 2006. 8. Tobin, S. The Cistercians: monks and monasteries of Europe. London: Herbert Press, 1995. 13
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