3D print Essen Minster
A free, printable 3D model of Essen Minster in Essen with its surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Essen Minster in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 10 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
10 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Westwork and adjoining church
The octagonal westwork and the attached church add many small roof shapes. Print friendly adapts thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print. Try 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
Essen Minster 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. Essen Minster 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 Essen Minster
Essen Minster, also called Essen Cathedral since 1958, serves as the seat of the Catholic bishop of Essen, whose diocese is known as the "Diocese of the Ruhr". Its dedication is to Saints Cosmas and Damian and to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it stands on the Burgplatz in the center of Essen, Germany. Before 1803 it served as the church of the abbey at Essen, a community of secular canonesses that Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, founded in about 845; the city grew up around it.
The present Gothic hall church dates from after 1275 and is made of pale sandstone; it was rebuilt following its destruction in World War II. The octagonal westwork and the crypt survive from a pre-Romanesque Ottonian building that stood on the site earlier. It is the third church building there; the first was raised between 845 and 870. A separate church, St. Johann Baptist, sits at the west end and is linked to the westwork through a short atrium; to the north lies a cloister that formerly served the abbey.
The Golden Madonna in its treasury is the oldest Marian figure north of the Alps that is fully sculptural. In 1803 the Kingdom of Prussia mediatised Essen Abbey, and the parish of St. Johann Baptist took over the minster. It became a cathedral when the bishopric was formed in 1958. Pope John Paul II came to the minster in 1987, which marked the high point of its thousand-year history.
About this model
Essen Minster is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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