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Article: It is not just the Frauenkirche that has been restored, says Robert Thorne, but also the collective memory of the city it overlooks.(DRESDEN NEWS)
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- February 1, 2006
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Last autumn there was not a hotel room to be had in Dresden. People flocked from all over Germany, and from much further afield, to see the reconstructed Frauenkirche. It is hard to think of a restoration project that has so caught the public imagination, a response expressed not just in the thousands who have subscribed to its completion, but also in the multitudes who have travelled to see for themselves what has been achieved. For this has been a project about the recovered identity of a great European city as much as the rebuilding of a single masterpiece.
For almost fifty years, following its collapse from bombing in 1945, the Frauenkirche was kept as a ruin ...