St. Michael's Church
Baroque main church with a soaring copper-clad tower, twice rebuilt after fire.
This guide to St. Michael's Church, Hamburg's beloved Michel, opens with a 1906 rooftop repair job that went wrong high above the nave and asks how an ordinary afternoon of soldering turned into the tower's destruction. It traces the confusion many Hamburgers felt, assuming lightning was to blame again just as it had toppled the very first Michel back in 1750, and revisits that earlier church's construction, opened with music by Georg Philipp Telemann. You'll also hear how the crypt sheltered Hamburgers during Allied bombing in the 1940s. Stand at the tower's base and picture the spark that started it all above your head.
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