Liebfrauenkirche is located in Solingen, a town in the “Bergische Land” in Nordrhein-Westfalen known as the “City of Blades”.
More information about this church at https://www.roundtowerchurches.net/deutschland-germany/solingen/
Construction of the Friedenskirche in Monheim-Baumberg began in 1968 and was finished in 1974. Worship service already started in 1971. The impressive building complex was planned by the swiss architect and sculptor Walter Maria Förderer. Förderer designed the Friedenskirche as a walk-in sculpture made from concrete: clearly sacred on the outside, pragmatically flexible on the inside.
The Reformed Church in Cronenberg was built from 1766 to 1771. It belongs to the type of Bergische Predigtkirche (Bergian preaching church) modelled on the Old Reformed Church in Elberfeld.
Altenberg Cathedral was founded in the 13th century as an abbey church by the Cistercians. The church, including its interior, is strictly Gothic in style. During secularization (1803) the abbey was dissolved, and parts of the abbey later became a chemical factory. An explosion largely destroyed the abbey buildings in 1815. After the ruins of the church were donated to the Prussian state, Frederick William III (1797 -1840) gave substantial support for the restoration of the abbey church on condition that it be used as a common church. The first Protestant service took place on 13 August 1857. Further phases of restoration took place from 1894 to 1912 and in the 1960s.
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