Carl Wilhelm Ernst Schäfer (born 18 January 1844 in Kassel - 5 May 1908 in Carlsfeld, district of Brehna in the former district of

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) was a German architect and university professor. Schäfer became the most important representative of the late Gothic Revival in

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. He created several churches: Modification of the

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Propsteikirche St. Gertrude of Brabant in

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(1869-1872), Catholic parish church of St. Nikolai in Lippstadt (1873-1875),

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in Bralitz (1889-1890), Catholic

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church of St. John Baptist in Birkung (1885-1893),

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(1895-1897). As a monument conservator, he led the reconstruction of the Friedrichsbaues of Heidelberg Castle (1890-1900), the Romanesque monastery church of St. Gangolf in Münchenlohra in Nordhausen (1882-1885) and the Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg (1897-1901). He added the pair of 81 metre spires to the

Meissen Cathedral Meissen Cathedral or the Church of St John and St Donatus (german: Meißner Dom) is a Gothic church in Meissen in Saxony. It is situated on the castle hill of Meissen, adjacent to the Albrechtsburg castle and forms a critical centrepiece of the i ...

in a highly convincing

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style from 1903 to 1908. This now forms a critical part of the Meissen World Heritage Site. In 1871, he had built a fountain on the property of his lawyer Carl Grimm in

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.Angela Karasch : The Carl Shepherd Building of the Freiburg University Library (1895-1903) (= writings of the University Library Freiburg im Breisgau Bd. 9). Freiburg 1985

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