St. Elizabeth's Church in Wrocław is a brick Gothic church from the fourteenth century. The article says the city commissioned it and does not name an architect. It is the second-tallest church in Wrocław and a landmark in the panorama of the Old Town. The original main tower was 427 feet (130 meters) high, and the reconstructed tower is 300 feet (91.5 meters).
From 1525 to 1946 it was the chief Lutheran church of Wrocław and Silesia. The last German-language sermon was given on June 30, 1946, and the church was then handed to the Polish Roman Catholic military chaplaincy. A fire gutted it in 1976, and its renowned organ was destroyed.
It is now a Roman Catholic church with a public observation deck, and it is a Historic Monument of Poland, designated in 1994.
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