New Church
In New Church—German Neue Kirche, known in local speech as the Deutscher Dom—this site once held a Protestant church that carried its nickname in plain sight. The first church here was built in 1701–1708 by Giovanni Simonetti, following a design by Martin Grünberg, and it served the northern part of the new quarter of Friedrichstadt, whose earlier church life had been tied to Jerusalem’s Church. From the beginning, religious identity was also linguistic. Lutheran and Calvinist congregants in the New Church were German-speaking, unlike the French-speaking Calvinists of the nearby French Church of Friedrichstadt—and together with the church’s domed tower, that German-speaking congregation helped fix the colloquial name Deutscher Dom, even though the building physically resembled a cathedral without ever being a bishop’s seat. …
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