Template:Did you know nominations/Maria, Königin des Friedens

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:59, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Maria, Königin des Friedens

Neviges pilgrimage church
Neviges pilgrimage church
  • Reviewed: Cueros de Purulla
  • Comment: Today is the architect's 100th birthday, and he's alive! I should have noticed a bit sooner.

5x expanded by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self-nominated at 21:56, 23 January 2020 (UTC).



  • Expanded over 5x to well beyond the minimum length requirement.
  • Nicely written, with a good use of varied and high-quality sources (the very detailed journal article @ ref [1] can potentially be used as a basis for future expansion of this article, which exposure on DYK may help to drive).
  • No close paraphrasing/copyvio noted from the English or German sources.
  • QPQ review done.
  • Image is suitably licensed and of good quality (indeed, it was a Featured Picture candidate at Commons, albeit unsuccessful). I strongly recommend the use of the image when the article is promoted, as it is so striking and distinctive and helps the reader understand the context of the hooks.
  • Both hooks are supported and suitably referenced, but I would recommend ALT1. It is shorter and more attention-grabbing; and in the original hook, the reference to the Second Vatican Council doesn't add much: almost all English Catholic churches designed in the mid-1960s and after were designed with its ideals in mind (versus populum, ad orientem and so on), and I imagine German churches of that era were no different.
  • There are a few minor textual and referencing issues to resolve:
    • Böhm presented a revised model to the cardinal, who was then almost blind but could feel the model by touch and ultimately favoured it. is supported by ref [2] rather than [1].
    • Construction began in 1963 The timeline seems to be this: it was designed in 1963 (refs [1] and [4]); Böhm won the commission in June 1964 (ref [1]); the site was prepared in late 1965 (ref [1]); and construction started in 1966 (ref [7]).
    • The Schlangenfenster is mentioned in ref [2].
    • The sentence about Hillebrand's Mariensäule needs a reference.
Thank you for an excellent review, and the help with the timeline. Please check again. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Good to go now. Thank you for a very interesting article. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 20:38, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Hi, I came by to promote this to an image slot, but the first hook is too long and the second too vague. What do you think about this alt:
  • ALT2: ... that Maria, Königin des Friedens (pictured), a pilgrimage church in Neviges designed in brutalist style, became architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building? Yoninah (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
fine by me (although saying less than ALT1) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
  • Thanks. The picture really says it all. Restoring tick per Hassocks5489's review. Yoninah (talk) 23:56, 8 February 2020 (UTC)