Friedrichswerder Church

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  Sculptures are on display in the exhibition "Ideal and Form. Sculptures of the 19th century from the collection of the National Gallery" in the Friedrichswerder Church.

• Visitors walk through the newly renovated interior of Friedrichswerder Church.

• A passer-by takes a photo of the front door of Friedrichswerder Church.

• The Friedrichswerder Church on Werderscher Markt.

The Friedrichswerder Church is a real gem in Berlin-Mitte and was built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It is considered one of the most authentic buildings by the Prussian architect.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was able to realize five of his numerous church designs for Berlin: four classicist buildings for the northern suburbs as well as the first neo-Gothic church building in Berlin - and thus groundbreaking: the Friedrichswerder parish church.

The previous building had fallen into disrepair and Schinkel designed a new building in the form of a Roman temple. At the suggestion of the king, however, he then decided on the "medieval style". The reasoning seems strange to today's visitor: it would fit "into this somewhat narrower area of the city, which approaches the ancient through the irregularity of its streets".

Classicist sculpture collection in the Fridrichswerder cCurch

The double tower front of the Friedrichswerder Church once towered over the small, densely built-up market of this first Baroque expansion of the town. The design is based on Gothic church buildings, but the clear cubic structure of the building and the façade clearly show a classicist sense of form.

For the construction work, which was supervised by Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse, Schinkel chose unplastered brick, the typical material of the Mark Brandenburg Gothic style, whose renaissance he thus ushered in. The church remained a ruin for many years after the war. After its restoration from 1982 to 1987, it served as an exhibition space for the sculpture collection of classicism.

Information

• Address:
  Werderscher Markt 1
  10117 Berlin
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• Phone: [phone]
• Internet: www.smb.museum
• Opening Hours: Wednesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Admission Fee:
  Free