Visiting times
Monday-Friday 10-11.30 a.m. | 1-5.30 p.m. (Changes are possible)
Saturday and Sunday changing times
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Church Spaces
George Bähr (1666-1738) was the master builder and architect of the Frauenkirche. He died at the age of 72, only five years before the church was completed. Although he wanted to be buried in the Frauenkirche, his grave was initially built in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden. It was only in the course of its secularization in 1854 that, at the request of his great-grandson, his remains were reburied and George Bähr's tomb was also moved to the crypt of the Frauenkirche.
We will probably never know for sure whether George Bähr will actually find his final resting place here with us. About 50 years after the bones were reburied, the council archivist Otto Richter discovered that the wrong skeleton was most likely recovered at the time.
However, the memorial is definitely the right one: the sculpture that you can see now was recovered from the rubble of the catacombs in 1994 and has been in the lower church of the Frauenkirche since it was reopened, as George Bähr originally wished.
