Finish - German church of Stockholm

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<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/umsh/AN6v0v6UaWiA20VcIsivQrYgH5cRRPqGCsJEECDFg8asBO3umP6o176P0HUbRcnHhtDiNLiy7R7OFhYpe__AK8JeKiOaqOKDXE8YJhSYIDHW93ZVZOlquvGyp-iwnM2bVpehX5mu9g9szNLv89EGZ77_xMo-uN-pyeG3fzlu8HP728jSNcVkOq5T2aXO4UIdnYaTFOel6xocvspO" height="200" width="auto" /> Photo By Mats Halldin 14:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATyska_Kyrkan_March_2007.jpg) Official site (http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=504517) Tyska kyrkan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Church,_Stockholm) ("German Church"; German: Deutsche Kirche), sometimes called St. Gertrude's Church (Swedish: Sankta Gertruds kyrka), is a church in Gamla stan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_stan). It is named for standing in the centre of a neighbourhood that in the Middle Ages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages) was dominated by Germans. Officially named Sankta Gertrud, the church is dedicated to Saint Gertrude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Nivelles) (626-659), abbess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbess) of the Benedictine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictine) monastery of Nivelles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivelles), in present-day Belgium, and patron saint of travellers. The German guild of St. Gertrude was founded on the location for the present church in the 14th century. While the guild was created by German merchants, their Swedish counterparts were often invited to take part in its activities. For example, King Charles VIII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VIII_of_Sweden) was elected in the guild's building in 1448. The headquarters of the guild was gradually rebuilt into a church starting in the 1580s. Among the architects involved were Wilhelm Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Boy&action=edit&redlink=1), the Flemish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders) architect of King Eric III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_III_of_Sweden), the Walloon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloon) Hubert de Besche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Besche) and also Hans Jacob Kristler (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Jacob_Kristler&action=edit&redlink=1), the architect from Strasbourg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg) who designed the Makalös (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makal%C3%B6s) Palace in present day Kungsträdgården (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kungstr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden) for Jacob de la Gardie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_la_Gardie). The brick steeple and the copper covered spire, together 86 metres tall, where completed in 1878 to the design of Julius Carl Raschdorff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julius_Carl_Raschdorff&action=edit&redlink=1) (1823–1914), an architect based in Berlin. For the commission he chose Neogothic gargoyles featuring grotesque animals, indeed unusual in Swedish architectural history but today recognized as 'natural features' of the old town.

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