Frauenkirche Triptych
Dresden, Germany | 2025
Sunset, dusk, and twilight photos of the spectacular Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany.
This Baroque church was built in the 18th Century as a sign of the will of the citizens of Dresden to remain Protestant after their ruler had converted to Catholicism. It was destroyed (along with much of Dresden) in the Allied firebombing of Dresden towards the end of World War II in 1945. The remaining ruins were left for nearly 50 years as a war memorial, but following the reunification of Germany the church was rebuilt from 1994 to 2005. About 4,000 original stone blocks were salvaged and reused in the reconstruction; these older stones are covered with a darker patina, due to fire damage and weathering. Read more about the history and reconstruction of the Frauenkirche here. Photo © copyright by Jack Brauer.