St. Hedwig's Cathedral

St. Hedwig's Cathedral

Also known as St.-Hedwigs-Kathedrale

Year

1773

Type

building

Frederick the Great ordered this rotunda built as a gesture of tolerance toward his new Catholic Silesian subjects (the first Catholic church permitted in Protestant Prussia since the Reformation). Boumann's design borrows directly from the …

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