Einhards Basilica
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The Einhards Basilica near of Michelstadt (Germany), is a church building from the ninth-century.
It is therefore one of the oldest European basilicas north of the Alps and very well preserved for this age as well. Einhard himself was a consultant and master builder of Emperor Charles the Great.
Because I grew up nearby, this was a great and kind of creepy place (after all, in the Middle Ages they also treated people suffering from plague there
!!!) to play in my childhood - when you still were and still are allowed to play there 
The modelling itself was a pretty simple thing here. Essentially I have created a very rough model using SU´s Match Photo tool. Here and there I added a few crude "pseudo-" details to give the model and the following rendering a slightly more authentic look. Match Photo also delivered most of the required textures out of the for this purpose used photo itself - SU´s "Make Unique Texture"-tool did a good and helpful job here! Only a few textures had to be replaced by new ones, for example the roof tiles...
(used tools: Sketchup with Skatter, Shaderlight, PhotoShop)
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Nice result. Some more love into the textures would push it over the edge.
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Yes great job. Agree with Rich. It's got good feeling.
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One of the more special on this site, Nice one.
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Excellent!
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Really great technique. Excellent result!
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thanks people for your comments and also for the suggestion to improve the texturing which exactly isn´t a strength of mine -
good work!!
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One other thing I did not mention up above was I thought it could use a little vertical adjust. The building felt like it was falling away from the viewer.
What do you think? is this an improvement?
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@pmolson said:
...The building felt like it was falling away from the viewer. What do you think?...
Thanks Paul - yes, your suggestion and adjustments bring a much better result! 
Did you do that manually with PS?
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