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The Marienkirche (officially St. Marien zu Lübeck) was built from 1277 to 1351. The building was a symbol of the economic and political power of this city then at the head of the powerful Hanseatic League. As part of the old town of Lübeck, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Mary is widely considered as the "mother church of Gothic brick".

Marienmünster Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery, dissolved in 1803. Founded in 1127, the monastery reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries. During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery and the church were badly damaged and had to be rebuilt from 1661 onwards. From 1965 to 2014, Passionists lived there and pastored the surrounding parishes.

The Church of the Market of the Holy Spirit is the largest wooden church in Germany and, because of its architecture and furnishings, it is one of the most important architectural monuments of the Baroque period in North Germany. The church was built between 1639 and 1642 entirely of oak and spruce wood. The building is covered with wooden sleepers and has been repainted in its original blue colour since 2013.

The market church of Unser Lieben Frauen, also known as the Marienkirche, was built between 1529 and 1554 from the former churches of St. Gertrude and St. Mary. The Gertrude Church dates from the 11th century and was the church of the salt workers of the Halle Valley. The Marienkirche church dates from the 12th century and was the parish church of the merchants and craftsmen of the town. The 16th-century towers were connected by a bridge for the tower keeper.

This 14th-century church is the main Lutheran church of the city of Hanover. It is the southernmost example of the North Germanic brick-gothic style and has one of the highest towers in Lower-Saxony. The roof and vaults were destroyed during an air-raid in 1943 but were restored in 1952.

The Martin Luther Church in the Dresden Neustadt is a church built in the late 19th century. It stands on the Martin Luther Square built in the same period. The building marries neo-Romanesque (especially in its interior) with neo-Gothic elements (mostly exterior).

The Martinskirche was founded in the 14th century and consecrated in 1462. From 1524, when Landgrave Philipp converted to the Protestant faith, the church was Protestant. The cloister, which housed the city's Latin school from 1539-1776, was demolished in 1776-77 due to the threat of collapse. From the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 18th century, the landgraves of Hesse were buried here.

Mary Magdalene Church was built between 1285 and 1333 as a three-nave basilica without a transept, but with two side chapels parallel to the choir room. It has an early Baroque high altar and a bronze fifth altar from the 14th century.

Construction of the church and pilgrimage center Mary, Queen of Peace in Velbert-Neviges began in 1966 as a result of a competition from 1963/1964. The church was consecrated in 1968. It was planned by the architect Gottfried Böhm, the first German Pritzker Price winner (1986). The church is one of the most daring folded concrete constructions of the modern age.

The St. Maximilian Catholic Church or Max Church is a late 18th century Baroque church. Former Franciscan monastery, it became a parish church after the abolition of the monastery in 1804.