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The DresdenFrauenkirche was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and has been reconstructed as a landmark symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies.
The Frauenkirche was surrounded by barricades, and fierce fighting raged for days before those rebels who had not already fled were rounded up in the church and arrested.
Funds raised were turned over to the "Frauenkirche Foundation Dresden", the actual rebuilder, backed by the State of Saxony, the City of Dresden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony.
The ceremony marked the beginning of the final phase in the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche, the biggest Protestantcathedral in Germany before it was destroyed in an Allied firebombing overnight on February 13, 1945.
"The Frauenkirche is a symbol, it was preserved to demonstrate the responsibility of Germany in its own destruction," Ludwig Guettler, president of the society leading the reconstruction of the cathedral, told AFP.
The plan to rebuild the Frauenkirche saw the light of day after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 thanks to about a dozen residents in the city on the Elbe River, but it faced several early obstacles.
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