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German Church
Deutscher Dom (de)
actually: Neue Kirche
Berlin, Mitte, Gendarmenmarkt, Deutscher Dom 02.jpg
The New Church on Gendarmenmarkt, seen from north.
Religion
Affiliation Profaned since its reconstruction
originally a Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) and Lutheran simultaneum, 1830s?-1943 united Protestant (Prussian Union)
District March of Brandenburg ecclesiastical province, Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadt I (deanery)
Province last: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union
Location
Location Friedrichstadt, a locality of Berlin
Architecture
Architect(s) Martin Grünberg (design), Giovanni Simonetti (church construction 1701–8); Carl von Gontard (design); Georg Christian Unger (tower construction 1781–85); Johann Wilhelm Schwedler (design); Hermann von der Hude, Julius Hennicke (new prayer hall 1881–82); Otto Lessing (exterior sculptures 1885); Manfred Prasser, Roland Steiger and Uwe Karl (outside reconstruction 1977–81)
Completed 9 April 1708, 1882 (new prayer hall), reconstruction 1988

The Deutscher Dom (English: German Church) is in Berlin. It is on the Gendarmenmarkt across from the French Church. The Lutheran and Calvinist congregants used German as their native language. This is different than the French-speaking Calvinist congregation who owned the French Church on the opposite side of Gendarmenmarkt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower gave the church its colloquial naming.

Famous parishioners

  • Ingrid Bartmann-Kompa, Horst Büttner, Horst Drescher, Joachim Fait, Marina Flügge, Gerda Herrmann, Ilse Schröder, Helmut Spielmann, Christa Stepansky, and Heinrich Trost, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR: Hauptstadt Berlin: 2 parts, Institut für Denkmalpflege (ed.) (11983), Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 21984, part I, p. 217. No ISBN.
  • Günther Kühne and Elisabeth Stephani, Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin (11978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, 21986, pp. 374seq. ISBN: 3-7674-0158-4.

Images for kids

  • Delius Berlin Gendarmenmarkt

    The New Church after the collapse of its tower in 1781.

  • GermanCathedralBerlin

    The Church in July 1981, overgrown with weeds and still domeless, its wartime damage still very much apparent.

  • Berlin Deutscher Dom Apel

    The New Church seen at twilight, with the marble monument of Friedrich Schiller in the foreground.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Catedral alemana (Berlín) para niños

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