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The Marktkirche in Hanover is allowed to have a stained glass window installed as a gift from former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
The Hanover Regional Court dismissed an action against it.
The heir of the architect Dieter Oesterlen, who was responsible for the reconstruction of the Marktkirche after the Second World War, had resisted the installation of the work designed by Markus Lüpertz.
Georg Bissen saw the copyright of his stepfather, who died in 1994, violated and sued the market church community.
The plaintiff is convinced that the planned glass window contradicts the Gothic interior of the market church because it does not have any of the style features there.
An argument that the court did not follow.
The window designed by Lüpertz is 13 meters high.
Among other things, it shows a barefoot figure in a white robe - presumably the reformer Martin Luther - and five black flies, which could symbolize evil and impermanence.
Despite the pending proceedings, the parish had already placed the order for production in a glass factory in April.
The Marktkirche was destroyed to the ground during World War II and rebuilt from 1946 to 1952.
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