The 4 oldest Churches in Tallinn
government church on the one hand and those of a hospice church on the other.
Accordingly, the services were attended by the wealthiest burgers and the poor; this
provided a way of segregation. An eight-sided tower is located at the western wall of the
building, which was fitted with a Baroque spire and a weather vane bearing the date 1688
after the fire of 1684. The earliest records regarding the tower date back to an old ledger
and inform us that the painter Didrik had been paid in 1498 for gilding the top of the spire.
The spire was restored to its previous shape after the latest fire in 2002. Unfortunately, the
fire claimed the hitherto oldest bell of Estonia, which used to bear the inscriptions: ''The
King of Glory, Christ, come in peace, be welcome the blessed. May Lord be with you. In
the year of Our Lord 1433.'' and ''I ring the same for the maid and the farm hand, the lady
and the master, no one can blame me for that
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