Vineyard Church to the Holy Spirit
Baroque hillside church set among royal vines, with a painted facade and a seventeenth-century altar.
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This guide to the Vineyard Church in Dresden-Pillnitz is about the building itself: what it was made of, how fast it went up, and how little it cost when Augustus the Strong cleared the old village church for his palace in seventeen twenty-three. You'll meet Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann on his first built church, and a sandstone altar older than the walls around it. Best heard standing on the vineyard path in front of the south facade.
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