Question: What was the Most dominant Cathedral in Utrecht
Answer: The most dominant of these was the Cathedral of Saint Martin, inside the old Roman fortress

Question: What began in 1254 
Answer: The construction of the present Gothic building was begun in 1254 after an earlier romanesque construction had been badly damaged by fire

Question: Was the cathedral finished 
Answer: the age of the great cathedrals had come to an end and declining finances prevented the ambitious project from being finished

Question: How many collegiate churches existed in Utecht besides the cathedral
Answer: Besides the cathedral there were four collegiate churches in Utrecht

Question: What else was housed in the city 
Answer: the city housed St. Paul's Abbey, the 15th-century beguinage of St. Nicholas, and a 14th-century chapter house of the Teutonic Knights.

Question: What did Utrecht's location allow 
Answer: allowed Utrecht to become an important trade centre in the Northern Netherlands.

Question: Who granted Utrecht city rights 
Answer: Henry V in 1122

Question: What was the relationship with the bishop like for citizens of Utrecht
Answer: the bishop, who controlled many lands outside of the city, and the citizens of Utrecht was not always easy

Question: What Industry did the bishop hurt 
Answer: The bishop, for example dammed the Kromme Rijn at Wijk bij Duurstede to protect his estates from flooding

Question: What year did the bishop lose power 
Answer: In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Question: What did Charles V combine 
Answer: Charles V combined the Seventeen Provinces (the current Benelux and the northern parts of France) as a personal union

Question: What did the loss of power end 
Answer: the prince-bishopric Utrecht, as the secular rule was now the lordship of Utrecht, with the religious power remaining with the bishop

Question: What was the bishop of Utrecht raised to 
Answer: In 1559 the bishopric of Utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious center of the Northern ecclesiastical province in the Seventeen provinces

Question: Why was the transition to a new union difficult 
Answer: Charles V was struggling to exert his power over the citizens of the city, who had struggled to gain a certain level of independence from the bishops

Question: What was the purpose of the castle 
Answer: The heavily fortified castle Vredenburg was built to house a large garrison whose main task was to maintain control over the city

Question: How long did the castle last 
Answer: The castle would last less than 50 years before it was demolished in an uprising in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt

Question: What was signed in 1579 
Answer: the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule

Question: What is this union seen as 
Answer: The Union of Utrecht is seen as the beginning of the Dutch Republic

Question: What became the dominant province 
Answer: towards its dominant province Holland

Question: What was the state of Utrecht 
Answer: Utrecht remained an atypical city in the new republic with about 40% Catholic in the mid-17th century, and even more among the elite groups

Question: Who did the fortified city fall to in 1672 
Answer: temporarily fell to the French invasion in 1672 (the Disaster Year); where the French invasion was only stopped west of Utrecht

Question: In 1674 what hit Utrecht 
Answer: the centre of Utrecht was struck by a tornado

Question: What collapsed during the tornado 
Answer: The halt to building before construction of flying buttresses in the 15th century now proved to be the undoing of the central section of the cathedral

Question: What did Utrecht host in 1713 
Answer: In 1713, Utrecht hosted one of the first international peace negotiations when the Treaty of Utrecht settled the War of the Spanish Succession

Question: Since 1723 what has Utrecht become 
Answer: Utrecht became the centre of the non-Roman Old Catholic Churches in the world

Question: What hapend in the early 19th century
Answer: the role of Utrecht as a fortified town had become obsolete

Question: In 1843 what brought growth to Utrecht 
Answer: a railway connecting Utrecht to Amsterdam was opened

Question: What was reinstated in 1853 
Answer: the Dutch government allowed the bishopric of Utrecht to be reinstated by Rome, and Utrecht became the centre of Dutch Catholicism

Question: what was built in the 1920's and 1930's 
Answer: New middle class residential areas, such as Tuindorp and Oog in Al, were built

Question: What was railway area developed into 
Answer: were developed following modernist ideas of the 1960s, in a brutalist style

Question: What mall was constructed 
Answer: the shopping mall Hoog Catharijne

Question: What happened in the early 21 st century 
Answer: In the early 21st century the whole area is being redeveloped

Question: What Socio economic problems does Utrecht face 
Answer: About 38% percent of its population either earns a minimum income or is dependent on social welfare

Question: percentage of population that's dutch 
Answer: About 69% of the population is of Dutch ancestry

Question: What boroughs are known for high crime 
Answer: Kanaleneiland, Overvecht and Hoograven consist primarily of high-rise housing developments, and are known for relatively high poverty and crime rate

Question: What does the dense population make difficult 
Answer: which makes concise definitions of its agglomeration difficult, and somewhat arbitrary.

Question: Least populates areas of Utrecht 
Answer: smaller Utrecht agglomeration of continuously built up areas counts some 420,000 inhabitants and includes Nieuwegein, IJsselstein and Maarssen

Question: More populated areas include 
Answer: The larger region, including slightly more remote towns such as Woerden and Amersfoort counts up to 820,000 inhabitants

Question: what dominates the cityscape
Answer: Utrecht's cityscape is dominated by the Dom Tower, the tallest belfry in the Netherlands and originally part of the Cathedral of Saint Martin

Question: What is being debated in Utrecht
Answer: An ongoing debate is over whether any building in or near the centre of town should surpass the Dom Tower in height (112 m)

Question: What is the name of the stadium 
Answer: the Nieuw Galgenwaard stadium (2007)

Question: What is a landmark in the city 
Answer: the old centre and the canal structure in the inner city

Question: What does the inner city look like 
Answer: The inner city has largely retained its Medieval structure, and the moat ringing the old town is largely intact

Question: What surrounds the mid-evil inner city 
Answer: Surrounding the medieval core there is a ring of late 19th- and early 20th-century neighbourhoods, with newer neighbourhoods positioned farther out

Question: What part of the city remains open 
Answer: The eastern part of Utrecht remains fairly open

Question: What is the main railway station 
Answer: Utrecht Centraal is the main railway station of Utrecht

Question: Does the rail station provide 24 hour service
Answer: Utrecht Centraal is a station on the night service, providing 7 days a week an all night service

Question: Are there rail services to Germany 
Answer: International InterCityExpress (ICE) services to Germany (and further) through Arnhem call at Utrecht Centraal

Question: where to regular local trains provide service 
Answer: local trains to all areas surrounding Utrecht also depart from Utrecht Centraal; and service several smaller stations

Question: Where is the bus station located 
Answer: The main local and regional bus station of Utrecht is located adjacent to Utrecht Centraal railway station, at the East and West entrances