I just ran across this on an alternative German news site and after dropping into Google Earth myself I could indeed not find a single Christian church that featured its cross on top of its tower. Perhaps bad luck of the draw? I encourage you all to pull up your local church in Google Earth and report your findings here. Apologies for the lousy auto-translate but I couldn't find any pertinent reports in English:
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FROM EUGEN PRINZ | Google Earth is a software of the American company Google Inc., which represents a virtual globe. It can superimpose satellite and aerial images of different resolution with geo-data and display them on a digital elevation model of the earth.
With this software, which is available for download to a PC, as an APP or for use in the browser, virtual tours can be taken from the office chair to any point on the planet and to visit the sights of famous cities without having to go there.
It does not have to be a famous city, which is visited virtually. It can also be a beautiful, medieval city, with buildings that are unrivaled.
There is, for example, the Martinskirche in Landshut. The tower of this church is the world's tallest baking tower at 130.1 meters, as well as the highest church tower in Bavaria. When looking at this masterpiece of Christian-Western architecture with Google Earth, however, the local viewer first considers.
Is not there something missing? Right, the impressive tower cross of the Martinsmünster is not available.
Here, in comparison, an aerial photograph taken by means of a camera drone:
And here again Google Earth from the same perspective:
An accident? Let's look at another church, for example the cathedral to Speyer. Here is a picture of Wikipedia:
And that is how Google Earth shows it:
And again the cross was "forgotten". Or, for example, retreated away, so as not to hurt the feelings of the people of a particular "faith"?
Before we get to the bottom, here is a call to our readers: If there is a large church in your town with a nice tower cross and you feel like a bit of research, then try Google Earth and see if the cross is still there.
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