Source: Atlas Obscura

This burly, imposing Baroque church—one of the few from its era made of entirely of brick—keeps its true wonder hidden: a crypt bearing remains of 17 members of Mecklenburg’s historic Ducal family, one of whom even went on to become Queen of Prussia.

Though records indicate that a church had been present at this site as early as 1217, the one that stands today was built from scratch in 1708. A 1703 storm…
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