Frauenkirche

The Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, is a church in the German city of Dresden, which is currently being rebuilt from the stones of the original church.

For over 200 years, the "Stone Bell" towered over the dome of the Frauenkirche in the inner city of Dresden. It gave the city a distinctive silhouette, until the bombings at the end of the Second World War destroyed the church. An intensive effort over the last few years to rebuild this world famous Protestant landmark gives justifiable hope that by the year 2006 -- the 800th anniversary of Dresden -- the Frauenkirche will again dominate the city's skyline.

External link

• The Frauenkirche (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres10.html) - a page from the Library of Congress website, from which part of this article was copied