St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main

From 1848 to 1849, the delegates of the Frankfurt National Assembly, the first parliament for the whole of Germany, met in the neoclassical circular building designed by architect Johann Friedrich Christian Hess.

However, almost nothing remains of the interior from this most important era for St Paul's Church and the history of German democracy.

[4][5] The deed of dotation statutorily established the eternal gratuitous usufruct of nine city-owned church buildings by six Lutheran congregations and three Catholic parishes.

Because of its typical Protestant centralised design (Predigtkirche), allowing everybody easily to hear the reverend or speaker,[2] it was desired as the meeting place for the Frankfurt Parliament in the course of the German revolutions of 1848.

The resistance of Prussia, the Austrian Empire and a number of smaller German states ultimately destroyed the effort.

[3] As a tribute to its symbolism of freedom and as the cradle of Germany, it was the first structure in Frankfurt the city rebuilt after the war.