Dorotheenstadt Church

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The Dorotheenstädtische Church in the Neustadt near Berlin, 1690
The ruins of the Dorotheenstädtische Church, 1950

The Dorotheenstädtische Kirche , also called Neustadtische Kirche , was a parish church in Berlin .

The parish church of Dorotheenstadt , founded in the 17th century by the Great Elector , stood, surrounded by its churchyard , in Neustädtische Kirchstrasse between Mittelstrasse and Dorotheenstrasse, in place of a simple previous building, probably by Rutger von Langerfeld from the years 1678–1687. The new building, built by R. Habelt from 1861–1863, was a three-aisled hall church in the arched style of the Stülerschule with a tall, slender church tower . In addition to the bells and some pieces of equipment, it contained famous Berlin tombs such as those of Rutger von Langerfeld, Johann Arnold Nering , Michael Mathias Smids , Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg and Anna Dorothea Therbuschs from the first building. Albert Geyer redesigned the interior from 1902–1903. The tomb of Alexander von der Mark, created by Gottfried Schadow in 1788/1789 by Gottfried Schadow , was considered particularly valuable . It was outsourced during World War II .

On November 22, 1943, the interior burned out completely as a result of an Allied air raid . The tomb of Alexander von der Mark found a new place in the Old National Gallery in 1951 . Before the ruins of the Dorotheenstädtische Church were blown up in 1965, the epitaphs of the Thaerbusch and Langerfelds could be expanded. Then the area was leveled and left to itself or to nature. The former site of the church and cemetery has been designed as a park since 2011 under the name Neustädtischer Kirchplatz .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Zimmermann: The Neustädtische Kirchstrasse is a dead corner - it is not only to blame for September 11th: Street of the Authorized. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 11, 2002.
  2. ↑ Neustädtische Kirchstrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, part 3, p. 441.
  3. ^ Dorotheenstädtische Church . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  4. ↑ kirchensprengung.de Information about no longer existing churches that were demolished as a result of the war destruction; see "Dorotheenstädtische Church"
  5. ^ Götz Eckardt: Fate of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1978, p. 5.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31'5.3 "  N , 13 ° 23'6"  E