Pictures of St. Maria Himmelfahrt church in Cologne, Germany

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St. Maria Himmelfahrt : An important work of jesuitic baroque in northwest Germany. Monument of anti-reformers. Built 1618 - 1629. After the damage of WW II it was meticulously restored in 1979 The only larger baroque church of Cologne was built for 1618 by Christoph Wamser from Aschaffenburg for the Jesuiter and completed only 1715. The inside of the church was arranged in the sense of the Gegenreformation in gotisierenden forms. After 1773 the Jesuitenorden was dissolved, the church was used starting from 1798 of the Frenchmen as temple of the reason. After the destruction by the war it was again developed by W. Schlombs and A. Goergen until 1979 in original form with baroque equipment and dreistoeckigem high age. The former Jesuitenkolleg, which was attached to the church, is used now as Erzbischoefliches Generalvikar.