page_title: Sophienkirche
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sophienkirche / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dresden Sophienkirche Lithographie
context_page_description: The Sophienkirche was a church in Dresden.
  It was located on the northeast corner of the Postplatz in the old town before it was severely damaged in the Dresden bombing in 1945 and subsequently destroyed in 1962 by the party and government of the GDR. It was the only Gothic church in the city.
context_section_description: In 1250 The Order of Friars Minor, Franciscans, built a monastery and small church at the location of the future Sophienkirche — this was known as the Franziskanerkloster.  Starting in 1331 the original structure was demolished and construction began of a larger church with two equally sized naves. Around 1400, at the southeast corner of the church, the Busmannkapelle was added, a private chapel for the patrician Busmann family to which the Dresden Mayor at the time, Lorenz Busmann, belonged and where he was later buried.
  The Franciscan monastery was abolished during the Reformation.
caption: Sophienkirche, Dresden
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