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You can’t get lost in Dresden. Wherever you go, you can see the stately white dome of the Frauenkirche, as much a landmark in this eastern German city as St. Peter’s is in Rome. It isn’t ...
The reconstruction of Dresden’s Frauenkirche—a Lutheran church completed in 1743, destroyed in 1945 and reconsecrated 10 years ago this month—evokes past and present.
The Frauenkirche is a late Gothic, three-nave hall church. The nave is 109 meters long, 40 meters wide and 37 meters high and can accommodate 20,000 people.
The Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, continued to stand above the burning pyre until, structurally undermined, it collapsed without warning the morning of Feb. 15. Advertisement.
The Frauenkirche was resurrected in 2005, after 11 years of reconstruction and six decades after more than 1,200 British and American warplanes dropped incendiary bombs on Dresden, ...
You can’t get lost in Dresden. Wherever you go, you can see the stately white dome of the Frauenkirche, as much a landmark in this eastern German city as St. Peter’s is in Rome.It isn’t just ...
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This digital composite image shows the ruins of the Frauenkirche church and the empty pedestal for a statue of Martin Luther in 1946 still wrecked from the Allied firebombing of February 13, 1945 ...
The Frauenkirche, Cathedral of Our Lady, was built in the 18th century and became a world-famed symbol of Dresen. During World War II, Allied bombing raids almost completely destroyed the city in ...