The stained-glass window depicting the Resurrection of Christ was installed in 1895. It is one of a number of windows supplied to St Mary’s between 1892 and 1904 by the Tyrolean stained-glass workshop in Innsbruck.

The ambulatory once featured a cycle depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. This window, together with that in the chapel to the right (or west) – the Chapel of the Ascension – represents the surviving remnants of the series. Following losses due to the war and demolitions after 1945, the remains, which had been in storage, were not rediscovered until 2003. With financial support from OSPA and the Ostdeutsche Sparkassen-Stiftung, they were meticulously restored by Fred Krönke (Dresden) and reinstalled in 2008.

The motif of the Resurrection – which may well have been the decisive factor in the choice of location for the war memorial – depicts Christ emerging from his tomb on Easter morning in the presence of an angel. In his hand he holds the symbolic ‘banner of victory’, a flag bearing a red cross on a white background. The tomb is not a rock-hewn cave, but a brick-built structure.

The upper and lower borders of the picture reveal that it belongs to the Neo-Gothic style:

Above Jesus’ words, “I am the resurrection and the life”, the church walls are depicted as being divided by windows; one could also interpret these as burial chapels, as well as flowers as symbols of the Resurrection. Crowning the composition is a colourful gable with a lantern, a typical architectural feature of the Middle Ages.