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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

If you want to climb the dome after your visit to the Frauenkirche, you will definitely notice a large piece of rubble in front of entrance F. Such pieces of rubble still adorned the Neumarkt until the 1990s, where the Frauenkirche lay as a pile of stones and ruins for decades.

Today this last piece of rubble stands as a monument next to the newly rebuilt Frauenkirche. But as many original stones as possible were also used in the building itself. The largest still intact part of the ruins is the choir building, which is located between entrances A and G - right behind you now!