Red Corner: Rebirth of Dresden Church

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3-07-2006 @ 1:05PM

Bryan said...

I spent many months in Dresden over the past couple years for work. Wonderful city - great architecture, friendly people, central location to other European cities.

I did get to see the rebuilding of the church progress in its final stages, although I haven't seen it totally finished yet. If I recall, the bell was made by a descendant of the man who made the original bell, and includes images memorializing, among other things, the attacks of 9/11.

Here's something I found online:
The new bells of the Frauenkirche peal forth with a message that must touch the hearts of all who hear them. Yet for the members of the New York Philharmonic, the largest bell, Jesaia (Isaiah), sings an especially poignant song. Dubbed the Peace Bell, it bears an image of the World Trade Center towers collapsing on September 11, 2001, accompanied by the words from the Book of Isaiah (II, 4): "Sie werden ihre Schwerter zu Pflugscharen machen" ("They will beat their swords into plowshares").

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