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The Liebfrauenkirche in Duisburg, Germany, designed by Dr. Toni Hermanns, was consecrated on June 4, 1961. It features a distinctive facade with an abstract ornament and a Moses relief.

The Liebfrauenkirche is probably the second oldest church in the city after St. Peter's Cathedral. Although it was first documented in April 1293, many historians now believe that the Liebfrauenkirche was founded as early as the 11th century. During the unsuccessful siege of Bautzen by the Hussites in 1429, the church was destroyed and was consecrated again in 1443. In 1620, during a siege of the city and during the fires of 1634 and 1686, the Church of Our Lady was again largely destroyed and was also frequently remodelled. Between 1864 and 1900, the church took on its present form.

St. George's Cathedral is an accomplished synthesis of late Romanesque and early Gothic from the 13th-century. The first church on the Limburg Rock was built in 910 by Konrad Kurzbold.

The monastery of Lindow was founded around 1230 as a Cistercian convent. At the beginning of the 16th century it was one of the richest monasteries of the March, so much so that the Reformation movement did not interrupt its operation, but turned it into a Protestant convent for ladies. During the Thirty Years' War (1638), the monastery complex was destroyed by imperial troops. The building of the former monastery school dating from the 15th century is still well preserved, as is the former wash-house. The former monastery is surrounded by a park, which is now used as a multi-religious project where plants have been chosen as a connecting element between religions.

The Loschwitz Church is a baroque church, the first built by the architect of the Dresden Frauenkirche, George Bähr. The graveyard, which was used as a burial place until 1907, is one of the few churchyard complexes in Saxony that were newly built in the 18th century. The Loschwitz church and the churchyard are listed buildings.

The Ludwigsburg Peace Church was built by the Munich architect Friedrich von Thiersch between 1900 and 1903. The neo-baroque building is decorated with a fresco on the ceiling. The building was first used as a garrison church in 1903, but was renamed Peace Church after the Second World War. Today it serves as a multipurpose space for the spiritual, community and cultural life of the city of Ludwigsburg.

The former Lukas Church in Essen, designed by Reinhold Jerichow and inaugurated in 1961, underwent renovation from 2011 to 2013. Now known as "Lukas-K-Haus," it houses apartments, a kindergarten, and medical practices while preserving its architectural character.

The monastery of Lüne is a former Benedictine monastery built in the 14th century on a former monastery burnt down in 1372. The monastery courtyard is surrounded on three sides by Gothic buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries and on the fourth side by the guest house representative of the late Baroque.

It was Christina Charlotte of Württemberg (1645-1699), a noble woman of the house of Württemberg, who ordered the construction of the church in 1675. She arranged demolition material of the closed monastery of Thedinga (near Nüttermoor) to build the new church in Leer. From 1706 until 1710 and in 1738, the church was enlarged. Because of this enlargement, it was possible to build a bell tower on top of the building in 1766. To make space for a bigger organ, the building was enlarged again in 1793. The final construction works to the church were in 1882, when they build a southern wing.

The Luther Church was built between 1902 and 1906 according to a design by Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner. Built in the Art Nouveau style with accentuated natural forms, the church is an important example of this architectural style in Saxony.