St. Mary's Church is a religious building in the center of the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, originally Catholic and since 1534 Protestant. It now serves as an event center. It was destroyed in the air raids on Dessau in March 1945 and was only rebuilt in the 1990s. St. Mary's Church used to be a palace and city church.
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Schakal

October 13, 2024

The former castle and town church of St. Mary in Dessau is a late Gothic three-aisled hall church made of brick with a choir and a west tower, which replaced a previous Romanesque building.

The first Romanesque church of St. Mary was consecrated in 1263. On May 25, 1506, Prince Ernst of Anhalt-Dessau laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new Gothic church under the direction of the Halle town architect Ulrich von Schmiedeberg, which replaced the Romanesque building. After the prince's death, his wife Margarethe von Münsterberg oversaw the completion and the festive consecration on October 15, 1523 under Cardinal Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz and Magdeburg. The church was vaulted in 1540/1541 by Melchior Wilde and Ludwig Binder and the west tower was added from 1551 to 1554. In 1553, Ludwig Binder added another gallery, which was decorated with parapet paintings from the school of Lucas Cranach the Younger.

The interior was redesigned from 1780 to 1784 under Prince Franz by Georg Christoph Hesekiel. As a palace and town church, St. Mary's was the burial place of the Ascanian princes until the new mausoleum was built in what is now Dessau Zoo. From 1848 to 1850, a crypt was built on the ground floor of the tower, and the portal to it on the north side of the tower dates from 1850 to 1852.

St. Mary's was destroyed by an air raid on March 7, 1945, except for the tower, the surrounding walls and the interior pillars, and burned down, losing the interior furnishings. A sandstone pulpit from 1540, the baptismal font from 1533 made by Ludwig Binder and the 52-register[1] Rühlmann organ were destroyed.[2] The tower - secured by a temporary roof - with its octagonal top was preserved, as were the half decorative gables on both sides of the tower. The ruins were transferred to the Dessau City Council on March 1, 1983 and rebuilt between 1989 and 1998 to serve as a public event space for concerts, theater performances, special exhibitions and other cultural purposes. The tower's Italian dome with lantern, the steep gable roof and the triangular decorative gables above the transept-like extensions were reconstructed. Source de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienkirche_(Dessau)#:~:text=The%20Marienkirche%20is%20a%20originally%201990s%20years%20%20%20rebuilt.

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Stephan

April 21, 2018

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During the Christmas market there are many stalls in the church

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