Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

Author  - Brian Hawkeswood.                                            Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. I sit in a wicker chair in the shade of the Höfe, the courtyard softened by summer’s gentle insistence — green leaves spilling from potted laurels, lavender stretching towards the late afternoon sun. A ceramic cup rests beside me on the table, warm with the last of the coffee, and above the courtyard wall rises the quiet silhouette of a church — tall, angular, still. The pointed spire, the sharp vertical lines, the narrow, arched windows — it bears all the gestures of the Neo-Gothic style, that 19th-century return to medieval piety, to aspiration carved into stone. Too new, perhaps, to carry the soot and weathering of the true Gothic, yet there it stands with dignity, pretending to belong to another century. It is the church of Saint Cunigunde, or König...