The narrative of the Bishop's Garden is directly related to the Dome Church. At about 1219, there was a church erected on Toompea. Ten years later, construction works were launched in the place of the present Dome Church. In 1240, the initial church building was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the same year the Tallinn Dome Church became the Mother Church (Ecclesia Matrix) uniting all Estonian churches, i.e. becoming the Cathedral. From Reformation to the present day the Dome Church has been the Cathedral of Lutheran Church. There is no data available of the original bishop's house. In 1420 the domain of Tallinn bishops on Toompea was first mentioned by reference to the adjacent property in ownership of the Uexküof Vigala (presently Toom-Kooli 13). In the fire of 1553 or 1581, there were just a few buildings left on the present plot of Bishop's Garden, but after the fire of 1684, the property was razed clean of houses. The vacant plot in Church ownership was used by Church officials as a garden. In documents of 1765 that area was also called the garden of Chief Pastor Harpe of the Dome Church. The well on the lower level of Bishop's Garden was excavated to the bottom in 1954-1955 and thereafter restored. The survey revealed that the well was 9.75 meters deep, with formwork of limestone in the section of the filling earth, and cut 5.7 meters deep into the flag rock. In 1930, in the process of organizing the tennis field located in the garden, a subterranean vaulted reservoir was discovered, evidently built after the devastating fire of 1684 to hold fire fighting water for Toompea. The outer dimensions of the subterranean room are 7 x 7.9 meters and the depth ca. 4 meters. The green area designed for the 500th anniversary of Reformation is centred on the Garden of Eden (Paradise) with paradise apple trees. Engraved with Roman numerals in the granite slabs of the main path of the garden are 14 stations of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa.
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