New Stained Glass Is Coming to Germany’s Oldest Monastery Gerhard Richter is set to design a trio of windows for the Benedictine Tholey Abbey Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History ...

On View Calling It His Last Major Work, Gerhard Richter Unveils Kaleidoscopic Stained-Glass Windows at Germany’s Oldest Monastery. The stained glass windows were paid for by a private donation.

The windows, which honor Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, will remain during a period of "public dialogue" on race and slavery. But the battle flags will be replaced with plain glass.

Donna Barron of Pineville always felt like the caretaker of this 100-year-old stained-glass window with the Nativity scene and not really its owner.