New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

The Neue Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, or New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, was built in 1961 as the successor to Franz Schwechten’s original Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church from 1891. It belongs to the Protestant tradition and sits alongside one of Berlin’s most recognisable wartime memorials: the bomb-damaged church tower that was left standing after the Second World War. The name points back to Emperor Wilhelm I, Germany’s first emperor, who ruled from 1871 to 1888, so the church carries both imperial memory and the much later message of peace and reconciliation. Its Romanesque Revival style gives it a very different character from the ruined old tower next to it, and together they form a cultural heritage monument in Germany. …

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