The tent-like church of St. Gabriel was - as one of the first churches in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) ever – primarily assembled from prefabricated concrete parts. It was built in 1970 by architect Peter Weeck in cooperation with the artist Friedrich Press as a Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts).
For more information on this building visit https://strasse-der-moderne.de/kirchen/leipzig-wiederitzsch-st-gabriel/
Hohen Thekla Church is a Romanesque church dating back to the 12th century. It was successively destroyed during the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic wars and later because of a fire (1959). In 1962, the church was finally rebuilt.
The Michaelis Church in Leipzig was built in 1901-1904 in the newly developed Nordvorstadt district of Leipzig. The architecture does not correspond to any style, but combines neo-Gothic, neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau elements.
The Keilstraße Synagogue in Leipzig is an Ashkenazi synagogue from 1904. The architect of the synagogue is Oscar Schade. This Neo-Moorish brick building still serves as a synagogue.
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