The Aegidienkirche or Liebfrauenmünster St. Aegidien is the main

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church in the German city of

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, located in the city centre. It is a

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in the

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, built to replace a Romanesque building of 1115 which burned down in 1278. It acted as the abbey church to the Benedictine abbey of saints Maria and Aegidius, endowed by

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, and after the monastery's abolition in the Reformation it was used as a Protestant church and for secular use as the Ägidienhalle. Since 1902 part of its former monastic buildings has been used by the

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. In 1945 it was made a Roman Catholic parish church.

Gallery

File:Braunschweig StAegidien Innen-2.jpg, Nave and choir File:Braunschweig Brunswick Aegidienkirche Westseite (2006).JPG, West end and remains of the tower

Sources

* * Churches in Braunschweig Churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim Brunswick Aegidien Brunswick Aegidien {{Germany-RC-church-stub