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Edifice

Edifice

Emblem of Protestant Church Construction

The Frauenkirche is a sandstone church erected on a comparatively small base area. The master builder George Bähr (1666-1738) opted for a centralised building with an octagonal outline. Square floor plan and an east-facing choir apse. Four corner towers, in which the stairways are located, limit the building at the sides. Thanks to the elegantly curved dome and the lantern above it with the tower cross, which together make up more than two thirds of the total height of the Frauenkirche, the building looks ambitious. The large windows make the stone facade appear less massive and more permeable.

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Edifice

Not recognizable as such at first glance, two of the four corner towers of the Frauenkirchen house the bells of the church building. Four bells are housed in the southwestern tower C, four more bells in the northwestern tower E. The stairwell that leads up to this tower is, next to the altar area, the second striking large part of the ruins that once protruded from the mountain of rubble. The consistently dark facade speaks of this.