Basilica of Our Lady (Liebfrauenkirche), Trier

Church of Our Lady rose beside Trier Cathedral in the 13th c. as one of Germany’s earliest fully Gothic churches, its compact, almost rose-shaped plan and light-filled vaulting turning medieval geometry into a Marian sanctuary. On the west portal, figures such as Ecclesia and Synagoga preserve the period’s theology and its fraught view of Judaism, while a modern Eva by Guy Charlier (1991–92) reframes the entrance as a conversation between inherited belief and present conscience.