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 | |
| Affiliation | Profaned since its reconstruction originally a Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) and Lutheran simultaneum, 1830s?-1943 united Protestant (Prussian Union) |
| District | March of Brandenburg ecclesiastical province, Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadt I (deanery) |
| Province | last: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union |
| Location | |
| Location | Friedrichstadt, a locality of Berlin |
| Geographic coordinates | 52°30′46″N 13°23′33″E / 52.512756°N 13.392506°E |
| 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) |
| Completed | 9 April 1708, 1882 (new prayer hall), reconstruction 1988 |
Famous parishioners
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change- 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.
Other websites
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Media related to Deutscher Dom at Wikimedia Commons
- German Bundestag Historic Exhibition Archived 2009-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Congregation in the Friedrichstadt (German official website)
