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Subject:	Re: MOC: Frauenkirche Dresden
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.schleim
Date:	Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:40:16 GMT
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Very nice model!

When we visited Dresden in June 2004, the church was still under construction, but largely finished on the outside. There was actually a large Lego model of the Frauenkirche in one of the local department stores (Kaufhof? Karstadt?). I believe it had been used for fundraising--buy a brick to support the rebuilding or something like that. I don’t remember the exact details, but you could probably find pictures by poking around on the web. I do think the scale was pretty close to what you did.

Not to detract from your work--this is a beautiful model of a wonderful structure!

Alan

In lugnet.build.arch, Holger Matthes wrote:

Hi all,

between March and mid August I build a scaled model of the Frauenkirche in Dresden (Church of our lady). The real church was nearly fully destroyed in the last days of WW II and encouraged people decided after the german reunification in the 1990’s to collect money worldwide and to rebuild this baroque building with the eye-catching sandstone dome.

The construction around the the darker parts of the ruin where finished last year in October and there was I big celebration while the Frauenkirche was reopend for the public.

In March 2006 I managed to visit the church and after seeing all the old and new bircks I decided to build my own LEGO model mostly using tan and dark grey for the facade.

For a more detailed report on the church and the building process please feel free to surf to: http://www.holgermatthes.de/frauenkirche/en/

See more picturs at Brickshelf:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=201191 (main folder)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=203679 (lower church supfolder)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=204481 (set up supfolder)

See some pics of the real church at my maj.com gallery:

http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=108559

Find more information about the real church at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche

While building I had to speed up a bit to get ready just in time for the 1000steine-Land in Berlin in August. There even the LEGO bosses took a closer look at my model!

Holger

Subject:	Re: MOC: Frauenkirche Dresden
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.schleim
Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:17:13 GMT
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Hi Alan,

thanks for you feedback.

I knew that there was allready a LEGO model of the church for fundraising. At flickr.com I found this:

I contacted LEGO if they know what happend to this model - but they don’t know. These days it is not displayed in the department store any more. I didn’t found much information on the other model, so I don’t know if it has a fully build interior?

But the scale is probably double the scale I’ve used in my model. I think this model was more then 3 m in height. Mine is “only” 1,45 m.

Holger