Jürgen Helfricht, The Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)
A chronicle from 1000 A.D. to the present
With photos by Ulrich Häßler
Translated by John Sewell
144 Seiten, zahlreiche, teils farbige Abbildungen, gebunden
Euro 10,95
ISBN 978-3-89876-333-2
Husum Verlag
It is the true symbol of Dresden, the most magnificent church of
Protestant Christendom – the Dresden Frauenkirche. Erected between 1726
and 1743 on ancient holy ground, the church building experienced both
brilliant and tragic times. The Allied bombing of Dresden in February,
1945, sounded the death knell for this jewel of world culture. For 50
long years it lay in ruins, a reminder of the war. Since 1994, it has
once again began to take its rightful place on the skyline of Dresden.
This unique reconstruction out of a mountain of rubble of a master work,
which was re-consecrated in 2005, is finely portrayed in word and
picture by Jürgen Helfricht and Ulrich Häßler.
