construction began 1147 and took over 450 years
burned down two days before the fighting ended.
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In other news.
The digits 05 carfed into its façade the symbol of the Austrian resistance.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Stephansdom-Vienna-O5-00.jpg)
0 stands for O,
and 5 for the 5th letter of the alphabet =>E
OE is an old writing style for Ö, the first letter in Österreich ( Austria )
since Hitler tried to erase all memory of Austria by renaming it, and all its provinces that also carried Österreich in its name into "Ostmark".