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The current church was part of a Dominican monastery complex, of which only a wall remains. The church was built during the 18th century and served as the conventional church of the Dominicans until the monastery was abolished in 1811.

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Cologne-Ossendorf, originally a church for the local community, was built from 1961 to 1963 by architect Georg Rasch. In 2019, it was repurposed into an Aikido dojo.

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.

The Dresden Frauenkirche is a baroque Protestant-Lutheran church, the main building of Dresden Neumarkt. Built from 1726 to 1743, it is considered the largest sandstone in the world. Severely damaged during the Second World War, the GDR kept the ruins intact as a memorial against the war. From 1994 to 2005, the church was completely rebuilt.

Eberbach Abbey is an incredibly well preserved 12th-century Gothic abbey. The monastery operated from its establishment in 1136 to 1803 (prohibition of monastic communities in the Holy Roman Empire). The building now houses a cultural foundation and the abbey museum traces the history of the abbey and the Cistercian order. Eberbach is also today the largest wine estate in Germany.

The Ebstorf Monastery was supposedly built in the second half of the 12th century. The monastery complex consists of a provostry, a long sleeping house, abbess wing, east wing, a cloister and a church built at the end of the 14th century. In the south and west cloisters late medieval stained-glass windows have been preserved. There is also a monastery garden, which is enclosed by a wall, the oldest part of which is about 800 years old.

Eichstätt Cathedral is said to have been founded by St. Willibald as early as the 8th century. Today's church was mainly built in the High and Late Gothic styles and was completed with a Baroque west facade in 1718. Together with the cloister and the two-nave mortuary, the cathedral is considered to be one of the most important medieval architectural monuments in Bavaria.

The monastery of Eldena was founded around 1200 as a daughter house of the Danish monastery Esrom and supported by the prince of Rügen Jaromar. The oldest parts of the former monastery church date back to the beginning of the 13th century. The buildings were looted during the Thirty Years' War, fell into ruins and were used as a quarry. Their preservation only began in the 19th century.

The Motorway Chapel of Hegau (officially Emmauskapelle) is located in the service area of Hegau West near Engen on the Federal Highway 81 from Stuttgart to the south. Instead of the original, too expensive dome model by the Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz, the project by the Ravensburg architect Wolf R. Bürhaus was selected in an architectural competition. The complex consists of a high cross, an inner courtyard and a parallelepiped-shaped chapel. Access to the chapel is via a narrow inner passage.

Erfurt Cathedral is the largest and oldest church in Erfurt. It was founded in 1154. Originally Romanesque, most of the Gothic parts of the building were built later in the 15th century.