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During the Nazi era (from 1933) the Holy Cross parish was suppressed by the Nazis, and it lost fold members [clarification needed] during World War II. Because of its prominent location, the church was used as a point of reference for the navigation of the bombers of the USAAF and the RAF .
The Church of the Holy Cross (German: Kreuzkirche) is a Lutheran church in the centre of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany.A Gothic hall church, it is one of three churches in Hanover's old town (Altstadt) – the other two being Market Church and Aegidien Church, although the latter is now a war memorial.
Remains of the Holy Cross Church in 1945. During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the church was severely damaged.On 6 September 1944, when the Germans detonated two large Goliath tracked mines in the church (they usually carried 75–100 kg of high explosives) the facade was destroyed, together with many Baroque furnishings, the vaulting, the high altar, and side altars. [2]
Shortly before World War II, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist, swallowed by Nazi expansion. Its territory was divided into the mainly Czech Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the newly declared Slovak Republic, while a considerable part of Czechoslovakia was directly joined to the Third Reich (Hungary and Poland also annexed areas).
First as a quasi-parish of the Liebfrauen-Überwasser community it was established as a parish in 1905. The spire was completed in 1908. Until the reconstruction of the Münster Cathedral after World War II the Holy Cross Church served as temporary cathedral.
The Church of the Holy Cross and its buildings constitute a historic area and the entire complex should be adopted in the city's preservation plan, the Indianapolis Historic Preservation ...
Holy Cross Church, Boston (former Holy Cross Cathedral), located on Franklin Street in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1808 the church became the Cathedral of the Holy Cross . It was designed by Charles Bulfinch and was the first church built for the city's Roman Catholics
Temple Church, also known as Holy Cross Church, (grid reference) is a ruined church in Redcliffe, Bristol, England. It is on the site of a previous, round church of the Knights Templar , which they built on land granted to them in the second quarter of the 12th century by Robert of Gloucester .