Saint Mary's Church
St. Mary’s Church—Marienkirche or St.-Marien-Kirche—is one of Berlin’s oldest churches, alongside the Nikolaikirche, and it sits on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße) near Alexanderplatz. The earliest church site is often placed in the early 13th century: chronicles mention it in 1292, and it was likely already standing by then, with the current structure generally associated with a build date around 1380. The church’s name appears in a dark episode from 1243, when it was cited as the site of an alleged Host desecration by Jews; as a result, people were burnt at the stake at a later place called Judenberg. Architecturally, the building’s brick Gothic character was shaped by restorations in the late 19th century and again after World War II, after heavy damage from Allied bombing. …
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