Daily Mel: Luther monument and Frauenkirche Dresden/Germany
At the end of August we went for a day trip to Dresden which is the capital of my beautiful home state Saxony. Back then I had posted an image of a hallway I had seen there, but today I want to post an image of one of THE landmarks of Dresden - the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). I am sure most readers will have heard of this landmark - the church was originally buildt in the 18th century as a Baroque church, but destroyed during the firebombing of Dresden in the Second World War which destroyed also most of Dresden's inner city. During GDR times the ruins of the church remained and served as a "memorial against war". Only after unification of Germany and funded largely by donations from around the world the reconstruction began and was finished in 2005.
We had arrived in the morning just before the church opened its doors for visitors. This had the advantage that the square was not yet very crowded, light was not too harsh and allowed for some nice photos to be taken. In this one I looked for a slightly different perspective that
gave more prominence to the Luther monument in front of the Church. Image was taken with my G12.
