Dresden, part two

On our way home from this short holiday, we passed again through Dresden.

We visited the Frauenkirche, the famous baroque Lutheran church that, after its destruction in 1945, lay in ruins until it was rebuilt from 1993 to 2005.

Its architectural special characteristic is the Steinerne Glocke or "Stone Bell", the sandstone bell-shaped dome.

When they rebuilt the church, they used some of the leftover stones from the original church. These are the dark ones. All the rest is new.

As fine art connoisseurs, we also used the two hours to visit the Galerie Neue Meister. Here is one of the gallery's cityscapes: Dresden by Moonlight (1839) by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl.

In between the 19th century beauty and today was this. Such complete destruction of human life and works is beyond what my mind can grasp. Dresden had been the 7th largest German city. The painting by Wilhelm Lachnit Der Tod von Dresden (1945) expresses it better than words can do.