The Church of Our Lady was first mentioned in 1205, it was subordinate to the Augustinian canonical monastery of St. Frei. After the devastating city fires, a new building was erected between 1450 and 1520 as a church in late Gothic style. In 1547, the spire was destroyed by lightning. Subsequently, the tower received its octagonal top and in 1549 the gilded knob of the tower with weather vane.
Meissen Cathedral is, together with Albrechtsburg Castle, the highest point in the city. The present building was erected from 1250 on the site of a former cathedral dating from the end of the 10th century. Today's cathedral is built according to a Gothic church plan. The choir and cloister were finished in 1268. The stained glass windows of the choir were installed around 1270. The chapel of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine was completed to the east in 1280, the octagonal chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1291 and the majestic chapter house in 1297. It was not until 1410 that the nave was completed. The cathedral passed to the Protestant Reformation in 1581.
The St. Josef church is a Catholic church dedicated in 1910. After the air raids on Dresden in 1945, the church was partially destroyed and the reconstruction completed in 1950. From 1970 to 1978, the architect Hubert Paul then rebuilt the church.
The church of the Catholic Court in Dresden was built under the elector Friedrich August II of Saxony from 1739 to 1755 in the Baroque style. Severely damaged during the Second World War, the church was restored in 1962.
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