List of churches in Potsdam
The list of churches in Potsdam summarizes the existing churches in the Brandenburg state capital in tabular form and provides information on former or predecessor structures and their location in the city.
Church name | Conf. | Construction year | Architect / s | Location in the city | image | Coordinates |
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Map with all coordinates of the churches: OSM | WikiMap | ||||||
Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church | Russ.-Orth. | 1828/1829 | Wassili Petrowitsch Stassow and Karl Friedrich Schinkel | The Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church is located in the Nauen suburb of Potsdam , on the Kapellenberg , near the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg . |
52 ° 24 '55 "N, 13 ° 3' 27" E | |
Institutional church | possibly | 1913/1915 | Theodor Goecke | The cross-shaped central building stood on the site of the Brandenburg Provincial Institute for Epileptic Diseases , later Brandenburg State Institute, on today's Heinrich-Mann-Allee. The building was the only church in Potsdam that was built in the Art Nouveau style. From 1938 the sanatorium and nursing home was closed and the area was converted. The church was leased from 1948 to 1962 by the resurrection community, which had lost its community center on Brauhausberg in 1945 due to arson. After 1962 the church remained unused. In 1985 the dilapidated building was torn down. The organ built by Alexander Schuke in 1915 had fallen into disrepair. The bell ( ø 125 cm) cast by the Bochum Association was brought to the Old Cemetery. | 52 ° 22 ′ 47 "N, 13 ° 4 ′ 51" E | |
Baptist Church | free church | Reconstruction 1956/60 | The church of the military orphanage at Schopenhauerstraße 8, which was destroyed in the war, was converted into a community center. The inauguration took place in March 1960. | 52 ° 23 '53 "N, 13 ° 2' 56" E | ||
Bethlehem Church | possibly | 1898/1899 | Ludwig von Tiedemann | The former neo-Gothic Bethlehem Church (also known as "Bethlehem Church") was located on Neuendorfer Anger in the Babelsberg district, near the Neuendorfer Church that was built earlier. | 52 ° 23 '19 "N, 13 ° 5' 17" E | |
Bornstedt Church Bornstedt village church |
possibly | 1855/1856 | August Stüler , construction work: Johann Heinrich Haeberlin | The church is located on Ribbeckstrasse in the Bornstedt district. In 1881/82 the church was given its present form through the renovations by Reinhold Persius . | 52 ° 24 '33 "N, 13 ° 1' 46" E | |
Christ Church | ev.-luth.
( SELK ) |
1902/1903 | Grabkowsky family, interior painting by Hänisch (Berlin), | Neo-Gothic building in Behlertstrasse . | 52 ° 24 '24 "N, 13 ° 3' 49" E | |
Bornim village church | possibly | 1902/1903 | Ludwig von Thiedemann, construction work: Arthur Kickton | Neo-Gothic hall building in the former street village of Bornim with a 55 meter high tower. | 52 ° 25 ′ 26 ″ N, 13 ° 0 ′ 1 ″ E | |
Drewitz village church | possibly | 1732 | unknown | On behalf of King Friedrich Wilhelm I , a square timber-framed building with a steep tent roof and ridge turret was built, which was given its current appearance after repairs and minor renovations in 1892. | 52 ° 21 '50 "N, 13 ° 7' 34" E | |
Oak village church | possibly | 1770/1771 | Georg Christian Unger , Emil Gette | Circular domed building with a tower within sight of the New Palace . | 52 ° 24 ′ 17 "N, 12 ° 59 ′ 35" E | |
Groß Glienicke village church | possibly | 14th century, 1679/1684 | unknown | The Groß Glienicke village church, probably from the 14th century, is located at Dorfstraße 11 in the district. | 52 ° 28 ′ 8 "N, 13 ° 6 ′ 28" E | |
Fahrland village church | possibly | 13th century, 1709, tower from 1740/1774 | unknown | The Fahrland village church is located on Ketziner Str. In the Fahrland district of Potsdam. | 52 ° 28 ′ 3 "N, 13 ° 0 ′ 52" E | |
Golm village church | possibly | Founded in 1289 and renewed in 1718 | unknown | The simple baroque building has been used as a cemetery chapel since the neighboring Kaiser-Friedrich-Kirche was built. | 52 ° 24 ′ 28 "N, 12 ° 57 ′ 46" E | |
Village church pit | possibly | before 1776 | unknown | The rectangular hall made of plastered brick is located in the Neue Dorfstrasse in Grube. | 52 ° 25 ′ 56 "N, 12 ° 57 ′ 11" E | |
Kartzow village church | possibly | 1866 | Theodor Prüfer | Neo-Gothic brick and field stone building in Dorfstrasse in Potsdam-Kartzow, built on the foundations of a previous church from the 13th century. | 52 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ N, 12 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E | |
Marquardt village church | possibly | 1901 | Paul Stegmüller | The neo-Gothic village church stands on the edge of the castle park in Marquardt . | 52 ° 27 '25 "N, 12 ° 57' 55" E | |
Nattwerder village church | possibly | 52 ° 25 ′ 29 ″ N, 12 ° 56 ′ 21 ″ E | ||||
Couples village church | possibly | 1770 | unknown | The simple, rectangular plastered building with a gable roof is located in Paarener Dorfstraße in Potsdam-Paaren | 52 ° 29 ′ 13 ″ N, 12 ° 56 ′ 8 ″ E | |
Satzkorn village church | possibly | 13th century / 1669/1873/1908 | unknown | Originally a stone church, rebuilt and changed several times. | 52 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ N, 12 ° 59 ′ 21 ″ E | |
Village church Uetz | possibly | 1870 | unknown | The neo-Gothic church was built using existing medieval building remains. | 52 ° 28 ′ 8 "N, 12 ° 56 ′ 27" E | |
Church of the Redeemer | possibly | 1896/1898 | Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel | The neo-Gothic building with a 74 meter high tower is located in the Brandenburg suburb on Nansenstrasse. | 52 ° 23 '45 "N, 13 ° 2' 10" E | |
French Church | ev.-ref. | 1752/1753 | Jan Bouman , Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff , alterations of the interior from 1833 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel | The church is located in the city center , on the east side of the Bassinplatz . | 52 ° 24 '2 "N, 13 ° 3' 46" E | |
Friedenskirche | possibly | 1845/1850 | Ludwig Persius based on designs by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , After the death of Persius, Ferdinand von Arnim , Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and August Stüler jointly lead the construction | The Church of Peace, modeled on the early Christian churches, is located in Sanssouci Park . | 52 ° 24 '3 "N, 13 ° 2' 36" E | |
Friedrichskirche | possibly | 1752/1753 | Jan Boumann | In the former Neuendorfer Feldmark, arose after the establishment of a colony for Bohemian exiles. Today Weberplatz in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam . | 52 ° 23 '39 "N, 13 ° 5' 44" E | |
Garrison Church | possibly | 1730/1735 | Philipp Gerlach | The garrison church was located in the inner city of Potsdam , in the Breiten Strasse . It was built on the orders of King Friedrich Wilhelm I , destroyed in 1945, the ruins removed in 1968 | 52 ° 23 '45 "N, 13 ° 3' 13" E | |
Babelsberg-Bergstücke parish hall | possibly | 1975 | Willnow | The building is located on Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Strasse. | 52 ° 22 '57 "N, 13 ° 7' 52" E | |
Heilandskirche at the Port of Sacrow | possibly | 1844 | Ludwig Persius based on designs by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. | The Heilandskirche is located on the banks of the Havel in the Sacrow district. | 52 ° 25 '29 "N, 13 ° 5' 47" E | |
Holy Spirit Church | possibly | 1722/1726 | Pierre de Gayette , Johann Friedrich Grael | The Heilig-Geist-Kirche, also called Heiligengeistkirche in literature, was located in the eastern city center of Potsdam . The bell tower of the church, which was destroyed in 1945 and later removed, was built after the completion of the nave according to a design by Grael from 1725/28, as noted on a contemporary tower elevation. | 52 ° 23 ′ 49 ″ N, 13 ° 4 ′ 13 ″ E | |
Kaiser Friedrich Church | possibly | 1883/86 | Emil Gette, Max Spitta | The neo-Gothic brick church is located on Geiselbergstrasse in today's Golm district and replaced the former village church, which was still used as a cemetery chapel. | 52 ° 24 '28 "N, 12 ° 57' 44" E | |
Klein Glienicke chapel | possibly | 1880/1881 | Reinhold Persius | The Klein Glienicke chapel in today's Klein Glienicke district of Potsdam was built as a wood-lined chapel in a neo-Gothic style. | 52 ° 24 '41 "N, 13 ° 5' 58" E | |
Catholic Antonius Chapel | cath. | 1906 | unknown | The former Catholic chapel consecrated to St. Anthony of Padua in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam is located on Plantagenstrasse. Since the construction of the St. Antonius Church on the same property, it has been used as a parish hall. | 52 ° 23 ′ 45 ″ N, 13 ° 6 ′ 3 ″ E | |
Church of the Hoffbauerstiftung | possibly | 1910/1911 | Construction company Adolf and Hermann Bolle according to their own plans | The neo-Gothic church, also called the Inselkirche Hermannswerder, is located on the grounds of the Hoffbauerstiftung on Hermannswerder . | 52 ° 23 ′ 45 ″ N, 13 ° 2 ′ 2 ″ E | |
Martin Luther Chapel | possibly | 1934 from an older building | Winfried Wendland | The small wooden church building with a hipped roof and a small roof turret is located in the Eigenheim district of Potsdam . | 52 ° 22 ′ 20 "N, 13 ° 5 ′ 17" E | |
Neuendorfer Church | possibly | 1850/1853 | Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse, Christian Heinrich Ziller , August Stüler based on designs by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. | The Neuendorfer Church is located on the Neuendorfer Anger, in the oldest part of Babelsberg, the former Neuendorf. | 52 ° 23 '18 "N, 13 ° 5' 16" E | |
Oberlink Church | possibly | 1904/1905 | Ludwig von Tiedemann, execution: Erich Riemasch | The church is located on the grounds of the Oberlinhaus in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam on Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse. | 52 ° 23 '36 "N, 13 ° 5' 19" E | |
Pentecostal Church | possibly | 1891/1894 | Ludwig von Tiedemann | The Pentecostal Church is located in the Große Weinmeisterstraße in the Nauener Vorstadt district. | 52 ° 24 '55 "N, 13 ° 3' 44" E | |
Saint Anthony Church | cath. | 1933/1934 | Wilhelm Fahlbusch | St. Antonius is located in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam, between Plantagenstrasse and Turnstrasse. | 52 ° 23 ′ 45 "N, 13 ° 6 ′ 4" E | |
St. Nikolai | possibly | 1828-1850 | Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius, August Stüler | The Nikolaikirche is located on the Alter Markt in downtown Potsdam. Today's classicist building with a large dome that can be seen from afar was built in the 19th century. | 52 ° 23 '47 "N, 13 ° 3' 39" E | |
Saint Peter and Paul Church | cath. | 1867/1870 | August Stüler, Wilhelm Salzenberg , construction work: Albert Badstübner | St. Peter and Paul is located on Bassinplatz in downtown Potsdam. The site was founded by King William I selected. | 52 ° 24 '4 "N, 13 ° 3' 35" E | |
Castle chapel (former) | possibly | Mentioned for the first time in 1320, various alterations until 1750, devised and changed for residential purposes. | Michael Mathias Smids , Johann Arnold Nering | The palace chapel was attached to the previous buildings of the city palace , the so-called old house. | 52 ° 23 '44 "N, 13 ° 3' 41" E | |
Stern Church | possibly | 1987/1990 | Horst Goebel | The church is located on Am Stern, a large housing estate in the east of Potsdam, on Im Schäferfeld 1. | 52 ° 22 '34 "N, 13 ° 7' 37" E | |
Church of Reconciliation | possibly | 1997 | Augusto Romano Burelli | The Reconciliation Church is located at Anni-von-Gottberg-Straße 14 in the Kirchsteigfeld residential area. The Reconciliation Church on Kirchsteigfeld in Potsdam, Mittelmark, Brandenburg, belongs to and serves a Lutheran congregation of the United Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and a congregation of the Evangelical Methodist Church. | 52 ° 21 ′ 42 ″ N, 13 ° 8 ′ 7 ″ E |
literature
- Andreas Kitschke: Churches in Potsdam. 1st edition. Evangelical Publishing House Berlin 1983
Web links
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