3D print the Dresden Frauenkirche
A free, printable model of the Dresden Frauenkirche with the closely packed buildings and streets around it in Dresden, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Dresden Frauenkirche
The Frauenkirche, a Lutheran church whose name means Church of Our Lady, stands in Dresden, which is the capital of Saxony, a German state. The Allied firebombing of Dresden near the end of World War II destroyed it, and it was reconstructed from 1994 to 2005. The rebuilt church is the third to stand on the site. George Bähr, Dresden's city architect, designed the original Baroque church, built from 1726 to 1743; he did not live to see it finished.
Bähr's design placed the altar, pulpit and baptismal font in the center, in view of the whole congregation. Its dome was the most distinctive feature: unconventionally high, at 67 m (220 ft), and known as die Steinerne Glocke, or Stone Bell. The 12,000-ton sandstone dome rested on eight slender supports and, despite early doubts, proved extremely stable. In 1760, during the Seven Years' War, witnesses reported over 100 cannonballs from the Prussian army striking the dome, and the projectiles bounced off.
Allied forces began bombing Dresden on February 13, 1945. The church held out for two days and nights, and its eight interior sandstone pillars held the dome up long enough for 300 people sheltering in the crypt to be evacuated. The dome collapsed at 10 a.m. on February 15. The ruins stood for almost fifty years as a war memorial, and after German reunification rebuilding started in 1994. The outside was finished in 2004 and the inside a year later, and the church was reconsecrated on October 30, 2005.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 24 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 31 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 39 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A lantern and cross on the dome
- A slender lantern with thin columns and a tiny cross crowns the dome. Printing slowly with good cooling helps tall thin parts, and Print friendly adapts them to the print scale.
- Ribbed dome and corner turrets
- The dome carries fine ribs, and four small turrets stand at the corners. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curved ribs crisp, while Full detail keeps every turret on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Dresden Frauenkirche is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Dresden Frauenkirche takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Dresden Frauenkirche is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Dresden Frauenkirche STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Dresden Frauenkirche grows with the print: about 24 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
