Liebfrauenkirche, Parish church in central Dortmund, Germany

Liebfrauenkirche is a three-aisled neo-Gothic stepped hall church built of brick, with a stepped choir ending in a 5/8 polygonal apse facing east. Its 72-metre square side tower adjoins the north aisle, with two massive buttresses per side, a clock, four corner turrets and an eight-sided stone spire crowned by a finial. The west facade has three pointed portals and a large tracery window.

The church was founded in 1881 and consecrated in 1883 to serve the growing Catholic population of the city. It was built during a time of rapid population growth and urban expansion in Dortmund.

Since 2011 the church has served as a columbarium, its burial places laid out as a meandering field 80 cm high and made of architectural bronze, echoing the colour of the former church seating. The small chapel in the choir is used for funerals and occasional memorial masses. The conversion by Berlin's Staab Architekten received the 2015 award for exemplary buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Since 2011 the church has served as a columbarium, redesigned by Berlin's Staab Architekten. The graves form a meandering field 80 cm high, made of architectural bronze to match the colour of the former church seating. The small chapel in the choir is used for funerals and occasional memorial masses.

The columbarium conversion was designed by Berlin's Staab Architekten. To keep the church's spatial effect, the burial places were laid out as a meandering field 80 cm high and made of architectural bronze, echoing the colour of the church seating. The redesign won awards in 2014 and 2015.