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Dresden, DE
The St. Martin garrison church of Dresden was the garrison church of Albertstadt, which had been created as a military town for much of the Saxon army. The church, built between 1893 and 1900, is divided into two separate church halls for the Protestant and Catholic denominations, of which since 1945 only the Catholic part is used in a sacred way.
Hameln, DE
The Garrison Cemetery Hamelin is a historic burial site of military personnel from Northern Germany. The preserved tombstones date mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Paderborn, DE
The Gaukirche was built around 1170-80. The church became a monastery church in 1231, to which two chapels were added in the 14th century. In the 18th century, the architect Franz Christoph Nagel (1699-1764) redesigned the church in Baroque style. In 1810, at the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia, the monastery was secularized. Between 1883 and 1887, the church was extensively restored and the Baroque furniture was removed and fitted with neo-Gothic elements, which were themselves removed in 1938.
Berlin, DE
The German cathedral built between 1780 and 1785 by Carl von Gontard in the Baroque style. It is located opposite the French cathedral, built in the same years as part of a project to redevelop the Gendarmenmarkt commissioned by Frederick II (1440-1472). Burned down during the Second World War, the German Cathedral was rebuilt between 1983 and 1996, and since then it has housed the exhibition on the history of the German Parliament.
Güstrow, DE
The construction of the Gertrude chapel dates back to the turn between the 14th and the 15th century. Originally, it was a half-timbered structure with brick masonry. The Gothic chapel was rebuilt in the 1930s.
Berlin, DE
The Gethsemane Church was built between 1891 and 1893 according to the plans of the architect August Orth and inaugurated in 1893 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. In terms of style, August Orth combined neo-Romanesque elements, such as round-headed windows, with Baltic Gothic elements, such as rose windows or cross arches, and above all the use of brick as a material. The church was named after the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Christians venerate this place where the twelve apostles and Jesus of Nazareth prayed the night before his crucifixion and where he was arrested.
Görlitz, DE
The present cathedral of St. James in Görlitz was built between 1898 and 1900 according to plans by the architect Joseph Ebers and consecrated on 6 October 1900. In March 1947, the then German chapter vicar Ferdinand Piontek had to leave the episcopal city of Wroclaw as a result of the Second World War. Görlitz thus became the seat in exile of the Wroclaw Metropolitan Chapter and the Wroclaw Ordinariate, and the parish church of St. James additionally became the episcopal church for the diocesan area of Görlitz-Cottbus.
Leer, DE
The Große Kirche (Big Church) was built after the demolition of the previous church in 1785-1787. The construction of the highest tower finished in 1805. A ship can be seen on top of the tower: this is an old symbol of the community and remembers the bible story of the disciples at the lake of Galilea (Mat. 8, 23-27). The church underwent a thorough renovation in 2011-2012. Today, the church is the largest church building in the area.
Bayreuth, DE
The Great Synagogue of Bayreuth is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1759. The synagogue was restored in 1964-65 and 2012. Decommissioned during the Second World War, this baroque stone synagogue was reactivated after the war.
Cologne, DE
Groß St. Martin is an imposing Romanesque church in the old town of Cologne. Founded as early as 960 AD, the current building dates from 1150-1250. Partly destroyed during World War II, the building was completely rebuilt in 1985.
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