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German recreates burnt-down Vondelkerk with 6,800 Lego bricks

German recreates burnt-down Vondelkerk with 6,800 Lego bricks

German engineer Luca König has constructed a 6,800-piece Lego replica of Amsterdam's Vondelkerk as a tribute following the historic building's partial collapse in a New Year's Eve fire. The detailed model, which cost approximately 450 euros to create, was designed using Google Earth as a reference and was recently showcased at an exhibition in Erfurt.

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