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Why did many ottonian cathedrals burn down in the eleventh century?

Why did many ottonian cathedrals burn down in the eleventh century?
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Why did many ottonian cathedrals burn down in the eleventh century?

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Their timber roofs made them susceptible to fire.
Ottonian empire was a Saxon empire of the German empire, named after its first Emperor Otto I, but also known as the Saxon empire after the family's ancestor in the German branch duchy of Saxony.
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