Destroyed Memorial Church, Berlin 1945 (in color)
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The Protestant Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial-Church ( colloquially
The Protestant Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial-Church ( colloquially known as the "Gedächtniskirche " and called by the Berliners " Hollow Tooth ") stands on the Breitscheidplatz between the Kurfürstendamm, Tauentzienstraße and the Budapesterstraße in the district of Charlottenburg. The not destroyed old part of the church is now a museum and war memorial.
The Allied air raids on Berlin in the night of 23 November 1943 had set the church building on fire, which led both to a collapse of the roof over the nave as well as to snap off the top of the main tower. The Nazis promised to the community to rebuild the Church in post-war Berlin as great and glorious as before. The victorious powers of the Second World War did thought that the building would reflect the Wilhelmine-German national pride. Thus, the ruin was initially left to its decay. Only in 1956 they began to demolish the dilapidated choir.
In March 1957, Egon Eiermann won the architectural competition for the new building of the church. The plan was first a modern building, for which the complete demolition of the ruins would have been necessary. These plans caused an unusually passionate public debate. It ended with a compromise, which was reluctantly accepted by both the architect and by the citizens. The 71-meter high ruins of the old main tower remained, secured structurally, as a memorial against the war, surrounded by a four-piece ensemble of buildings according to the plans of Eiermann. An octagonal nave and a rectangular foyer to the west of the old tower stump and a hexagonal bell tower and a likewise rectangular chapel east of it. On 9 May 1959 was held the ceremony for the new building. On 17 December 1961 the finished church was consecrated by the Bishop Otto Dibelius. The entire ensemble of Memorial Church is now a listed building and is considered an important building in the post-war modernism and one of the landmarks of Berlin. The building is constantly visited by tourists. The people of Berlin call the octagonal nave and the new bell tower "lipstick and powder box".
Text translated from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-W...
Music: Adagio from the Fugue in C major BWV 564, Johann Sebastian Bach
The Allied air raids on Berlin in the night of 23 November 1943 had set the church building on fire, which led both to a collapse of the roof over the nave as well as to snap off the top of the main tower. The Nazis promised to the community to rebuild the Church in post-war Berlin as great and glorious as before. The victorious powers of the Second World War did thought that the building would reflect the Wilhelmine-German national pride. Thus, the ruin was initially left to its decay. Only in 1956 they began to demolish the dilapidated choir.
In March 1957, Egon Eiermann won the architectural competition for the new building of the church. The plan was first a modern building, for which the complete demolition of the ruins would have been necessary. These plans caused an unusually passionate public debate. It ended with a compromise, which was reluctantly accepted by both the architect and by the citizens. The 71-meter high ruins of the old main tower remained, secured structurally, as a memorial against the war, surrounded by a four-piece ensemble of buildings according to the plans of Eiermann. An octagonal nave and a rectangular foyer to the west of the old tower stump and a hexagonal bell tower and a likewise rectangular chapel east of it. On 9 May 1959 was held the ceremony for the new building. On 17 December 1961 the finished church was consecrated by the Bishop Otto Dibelius. The entire ensemble of Memorial Church is now a listed building and is considered an important building in the post-war modernism and one of the landmarks of Berlin. The building is constantly visited by tourists. The people of Berlin call the octagonal nave and the new bell tower "lipstick and powder box".
Text translated from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-W...
Music: Adagio from the Fugue in C major BWV 564, Johann Sebastian Bach
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