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Dresden, Frauenkirche ruins
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Dresden, Frauenkirche ruins. Statue of Martin Luther has been knocked from its pedestal, but survives to be reinstalled decades, but many decades later. Photo taken April 1945. This quote is taken from an excellent article that appears in Wikipedia. “The Dresden Frauenkirche survived the firebombing of Dresden during World War II but was totally burned out and collapsed the next day. It has been reconstructed as a landmark symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies. The reconstruction of its exterior was completed in 2004, its interior in 2005 and after 13 years of rebuilding.” The recent reconstructions of the Royal Palace in Warsaw and the Cathedral of Christ Our Saviour in Moscow rank with this one in Dresden as part of a movement to restore lost symbols of the people and communities that have been racked by the wars and political upheavals of the 20th century. J. S. Bach, among others, presented his work to audiences in Frauenkirche, or in English, Church of Our Lady. It was finally destroyed, along with most of the city and tens of thousands of its inhabitants, almost two days after the city firebombed on 13-14 February 1945. The city had been subjected to many thousands of incendiary bombs dropped almost continuously by combined Allied air forces rover a 24 hour period. In the ensuing fire storm with heat reaching over 1,000 degree Celsius, the stone church exploded and burned. The novel, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, leaves a graphic illustration of what Dresden looked like just before and just after it was destroyed. The complete destruction of Dresden was such a shock that it became an albatross of sorts on the victors. Even then the former capital of Saxony was considered to be more of an open air Baroque museum than a military target. It was even called Florence on the Elbe. It was targeted nevertheless. When the tally was in, the loss of civilian lives in the coodinated raids on Dresden was so great and the destruction of the city so complete, that it would later be compared to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that took place in August of that same year. The two Japanese cities were each destroyed with a single atomic weapon while Dresden was destroyed by what was called more conventional means...assuming that destroying an entire city in just a few hours can be considered a conventional activity. The reconstruction of this domed church, a distinctive historic symbol of the city of Dresden and its skyline, was completed in 2004. The restoration of its interiors were completed in 2005 following 13 years of work that included reassembling some of its original remains which had been saved since 1945. The people of Dresden resisted early efforts to clear the site. Likewise, they put off later efforts to turn the undesturbed pile of stones into a parking lot or car park. The ruins and pile of stones even became an impromptu peace memorial for the city after the World War II. Though it had always been the intensions of the survivors of Dresden to rebuild the church, Soviet and East German, GDR, officials never really encouraged it. It should not be a surprise that the Frauenkirche was also a symbol of the city’s resistance to authority and tyranny. It was a Protestant church built with the support and favor of the Catholic Elector-Duke of Saxony. In 1849 it was the center of the city’s popular democratic revolt. Although that revolt failed, it was part of the great reform movement that attempted to democratize Europe, just a little ahead of schedule. It would be fitting that under the GDR's watchful eyes, Dresden residents annually on February 13 staged a silent candlelight memorial at the undisturbed site of the ruins for many years following WWII. Ordinary Germans also used the site in a similar manner to protest the communist government upon occasion. It was during the annual vigil in February 1989, that similar public demonstrations and calls for peace were repeated in Leipzig and other East German cities. Tens of thousands of Germans continued these quiet displays for months afterwards until it finally culminated in the days and events of late October and early November of 1989. We know one of them as the day the walls came down. It was not surprising that almost immediately after the Berlin Wall was breached in a relatively peaceful civilian invasion from both sides on 9 November 1989, talk of Dresden's return began again. Officials throughout a soon to be reunified Germany and ordinary citizens in Dresden, began to speak of Dresden's reconstruction with a great deal of renewed earnest and official encouragement...almost 50 years after the city had been reduced to rubble in the closing weeks of the Second World War. The restoration of the Frauenkirche has become a symbol of reconciliation and reunification that isn’t just limited to Germany as the Wikipedia article reveals. Dresden may never completely be again what some called a living urban museum and Baroque landscape of Marzipan buildings. At least a few of Dresden's most famous architectural confections have reappeared. For generations these buildings and this city sheltered and inspired some of Europe's greatest minds. It is the hope of many that an understanding of how this city worked, in addition to how it looked, might also be recovered. If so, the restored landmarks might inspire future generations to think grandly, too. A restored Dresden might also remind this and future generations of what is too often lost when reason is displaced by a sword.
Frauenkirche
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The beautiful and famous Lutheran Frauenkirche was entirely destroyed in the 1945 firebombing. Starting in 1994, meticulous reconstruction of the church began and it was re-consecrated on 30 October 2005.
Frauenkirche Balcony
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The entire interior of the Frauenkirche is richly decorated and the good lighting and pastel colours give it a very light and fresh feel.
Dresden
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Can you spot the power plant in the middle of the city? (Hint: its cooling tower is blue).
Dresden And Elbe River
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A view of the Elbe River from the Frauenkirche's dome.
Nearest places of interest:
| Cosel Palais Frauenkirche Альбертинум Polizeidirektion Dresden | Brühlscher Garten Filmnächte am Elbufer Брюльская терраса Ständehaus |
