About this motif
Essen grew up around a convent for noblewomen founded in the 9th century. Monasteries and convents shaped the city's early history long before coal and steel made it an industrial metropolis.
Buchner's landscape sheet shows a Romanesque rubble-stone church with a pointed tower, a square crossing tower and round-arched windows, trees on the left and a column on the right. Image about 5 x 7 cm on a 13 x 18 cm sheet, black and white or hand-coloured, framed on request.
