Neue Kirche, Berlin

church building in Mitte, Germany

The Neue Kirche (English: New Church; colloquially German: Deutscher Dom, meaning "German Cathedral"), 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.

German Church
Deutscher Dom (de)
actually: Neue Kirche
The New Church on Gendarmenmarkt, seen from north.
Religion
AffiliationProfaned since its reconstruction
originally a Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) and Lutheran simultaneum, 1830s?-1943 united Protestant (Prussian Union)
DistrictMarch of Brandenburg ecclesiastical province, Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadt I (deanery)
Provincelast: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union
Location
LocationFriedrichstadt, a locality of Berlin
Geographic coordinates52°30′46″N 13°23′33″E / 52.512756°N 13.392506°E / 52.512756; 13.392506
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)
Completed9 April 1708, 1882 (new prayer hall), reconstruction 1988

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  • 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.

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