New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church—German: Neue Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche—is a Protestant landmark shaped by both imperial ambition and wartime loss. Its original church was built in the 1890s, with cornerstone ceremony on 22 March 1891, the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and it was dedicated on 1 September 1895, the eve of the Day of Sedan. The design was won by Franz Schwechten, known for the Anhalter Bahnhof, and it was planned in a Neo-Romanesque style with a long wall-mosaic program totaling 2,740 square metres and a spire intended to reach 113 metres—later reduced to 71 metres after damage. In 1943, the church was badly damaged in a bombing raid. What you see today—built between 1959 and 1963—keeps the old, injured spire as a memorial hall on its ground floor, while a new church, foyer, belfry, and attached chapel were added. …
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