#Katharinenportal for #MonochromeMonday

This #Baroque portal in #Magdeburg once belonged to the medieval St Katharine's Church (St.-Katharinen-Kirche). The church, destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt in the 1660s, was gutted by fire in the Second World War. Despite this, its ruins provided shelter to many in January 1945 during the city's most devastating bombing raid.
In the 1960s, the ruins were demolished, as socialism had no place for religion. Only this fragment of the church's west portal remained. The sculpture of St Catherine (Katharina in German) was relocated to another church, while the portal itself was stored by a construction company.
In 2016, the portal was restored and reinstalled near its original location on #BreiterWeg, one of Magdeburg's main avenues. Today, it stands between modern shops and high-rise buildings. Poor Katharina may seem out of place here, but she serves as a poignant reminder of the past and the history she has witnessed since her creation in 1668.


#architecture #Architektur #Barock #cityscape #historical #BWPhotography #BWPhoto #greyscale #grayscale #bnw #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhoto #MonochromePhotography #archway #Tor #Torbogen #Doorsday

St. Lukas across the river

#fujifilm X-T2, #tamron 17-70mm @ 56mm equiv.
ISO 800, f4, 1/350s, #sooc

#fujifilmxseries #church #kirche #urbanphotography #graffiti #munich #muenchen #wall #window #torbogen #cityscapes

A glimpse into the #Stallhof (Stable Yard) in #Dresden through one of its #Renaissance portals for #MonochromeMonday. Much architecture. Very stone. Such wow. Why didn't I go inside! 😭


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#Altstadt mit #Torbogen
bei #Nacht

#FotoVorschlag: #Graffiti

"Nigole I love you" in #Naumburg >> #Doorsday

#streetArt #NaumburgSaale #NaumburgAnDerSaale #urbanDecay #doorway #door #archway #Torbogen #Hauseingang #Tor #Tür #Türen #doorPhotography #dailyDoor #doorsOfMastodon #doors #AdoorableThursday

The #TraitorsGate at the #TowerOfLondon, adorned with red #poppies during the 2014 #artInstallation 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘥, which commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Each of the 888,246 ceramic red #poppies represented one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the Great War.

This year, a smaller installation of the original poppies was displayed until #ArmisticeDay last week. I had planned to share this #gate last #Doorsday but got sidetracked by that stunning Old World #doorway in Seattle I posted instead. 😅


#Mohn #Mohnblumen #Mohnliebe #Mohntag #poppy #Kunstinstallation #publicArt #öffentlicheKunst #WorldWarI #FirstWorldWar #ErsterWeltkrieg #NieWiederIstJetzt #NieWiederKrieg #NieWieder #neverAgain #neverAgainIsNow #StThomassTower #StThomasTower #London #England #UK #door #archway #Torbogen #Tor #Tür #Türen #doorPhotography #dailyDoor #doorsOfMastodon #doors #AdoorableThursday