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Ulm Cathedral – is a Lutheran church, the tallest church in the world, with a steeple measuring 161.53 m (530 ft) and containing 768 steps. Located in Ulm (in the south of Germany), the church is not a cathedral in the technical ecclesiastical sense, as it has never been the seat of a bishop. However, it is a famous example of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture.
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