Carl Schäfer

Carl Wilhelm Ernst Schäfer (born 18 January 1844 in Kassel - 5 May 1908 in Carlsfeld, district of Brehna in the former district of Bitterfeld) was a German architect and university professor.

[1][2][3] Schäfer became the most important representative of the late Gothic Revival in Germany.

He added the pair of 81 metre spires to the Meissen Cathedral in a highly convincing neo-Gothic 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 Marburg.