This is a reflection of St. Mary Magdalene Church in Wrocław from a modern office building. Mary Magdalene is a gothic church close to the central market square, established in the 13th century. These old post cards show the church before it was damaged in the siege of Breslau at the end of World War II. The importance of the temple in Middle Ages is underlined by the fact that in 1356 the emperor Charles IV gave it the relic of Mary Magdalene, a thorn from the crown of Christ and a splinter of the Holy Cross. On 25 October 1523 a Protestant clergyman Jan Hess started the first Lutheran service in Wrocław. Since then and until 1945 the church - with St. Elisabeth and St. Bernard churches - was an important center for the Evangelical Church.