The Russich Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon the wonderful mountains to Dresden. Source: wikimedia commons.
The church seems to have fallen out as time and space, an island bordered by trees. Around nothing but prefabricated. The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon of the marvelous mountains to Dresden is lonely and charming with its five sky blue, shiny-domed Christ and the four evangelists symbolize the onion domes of gold crosses crowned, which seem to rest on a golden crescent and four Gold chains held.
The round towers are repeated in the drop-like pediments, the Kokoschniki. I enter the church: A pleasant dark brings the gold of the life-size icons that separate the church 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: Moving tires - at the crucial 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. Bosses established church, also built the German Church in St. Petersburg. Rachmaninov, Turgenev, Bakunin visited, Dostojewksi baptized his daughter here.
In the firestorm of February 1945, the area surrounding the church was turned into a wasteland of ruins, only the church survived the apocalypse, along with 200 people who had taken refuge there. A truly special place!
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A beautiful post! This church is me (thanks Schienenersatzverkehr) noticed in transit between Prague and Berlin (from the bus). The sensuality of Churches invites you to faith, while the miracle of 1945 could be a proof.
Sorry, what a miracle?
IN Dresden were shredded several 100000send people by the bomb massacre of the British and U.S. Americans and burned to ashes.
Those who survived, was shot down by the low-flying aircraft of the United States as to the shooting range.
On these days about 600000 Flüchtline from Silesia were in town, in addition to the approximately 600,000 people of Dresden also.
The officially stated by the Menschenverwirrern 25,000 dead istnichts as a cynical lie.
So where is the wonder?
Now that the people survived in the church, while everything around her was in ruins.