The russich Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon from the wonderful mountains to Dresden. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The church seems to have fallen out as time and space, an island bordered by trees. All around nothing but prefabricated. The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon from the marvelous mountains to Dresden stands lonely and charming with its five sky blue, shiny domes that Christ and the four evangelists symbolize the onion domes of gold crosses topped that seem to rest on a golden crescent moon and four Gold chains held.
The rounded towers are repeated in the teardrop-shaped gables, the Kokoschniki. I enter the church: A pleasant dark causes the gold of life-size icons that separates the nave from the Holy of Holies, to shine. I prefer a warm air of beeswax candles. The Holy Michael has particularly impressed me: With powerful dark wings and a sword firmly in his right hand he stands there like a promise: to intervene - at the decisive moment against the dragon of lies, confusion, chaos. I feel it-builds.
The icons painted by the Englishman James Marshall in 1872 by the German architect v. Bosse established church, who built the German Church in St. Petersburg. Rachmaninoff, Turgenev, Bakunin they visited, Dostojewksi baptized his daughter here.
In firestorm of February 1945, the surrounding area of the church was transformed into a wasteland of ruins, only the church survived the apocalypse, along with 200 people who had taken refuge there. A truly special place!
