🏛 Clock Tower and the Old Cathedral

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A tall clock tower among the cobbled lanes of the old town — the former bell tower of the cathedral and one of Vyborg's landmark verticals.

The lower tier of the tower is built of boulders, no later than the first half of the 16th century; the walls at the base are 1.6 m thick and stand directly on granite bedrock.
The first clock on the bell tower was installed in 1660, and the current mechanism was fitted in 1848 and still works.
After the fire of 1793, to a design by Johann Brockman, the tower was extended with a Neoclassical tier and turned into a 35-metre fire watchtower.
The alarm bell given to the city by Catherine II still hangs on the tower.
The tower appears in the film Sannikov Land: the adventurer Krestovsky climbs it blindfolded.
The cathedral was consecrated in 1418 in the name of the Virgin Mary and St Olaf; it was later Lutheran, Orthodox and Lutheran again.
The cathedral was finally destroyed in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939 — only its walls have remained since.

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