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Key facts
- Affiliation
- United ( Prussian Union ) (1817–present) Reformed (1632–1817) Lutheran (1539–1632) Catholic (until 1539)
- Province
- Union of Evangelical Churches
- Year consecrated
- 1454, as the Catholic St. Erasmus Chapel
- Location
- Cölln , a historical neighbourhood of Berlin , Germany
- Architects
- Martin Böhme (1717) Johann Boumann the Elder (1747–1750) Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1817 and 1820–1822) Julius Raschdorff and Otto Raschdorff, father and son (1894–1905)
- Style
- Renaissance (until 1538) Brick Gothic (1538–1747) Baroque (1747–1817/1822) Neoclassical (1817–1893) Neo-Renaissance , since 1905
- Completed
- 1451 (first building) 1538 (2nd bldg) 1750 (3rd bldg) 1905 (4th bldg) 1993 reinaugurated after removal of war destructions
- Construction cost
- 11.5 million marks (1905)
- Direction of fa ade
- west
- Length
- 114 metres (374 ft), shorter since the demolition of the northern memorial hall in 1975
- Width
- 74 metres (243 ft)
- Dome height outer
- 115 metres (377 ft) (until destruction 1944)
- Materials
- originally brick, since 1905, Silesian sandstone
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Encyclopedic overview
Berlin Cathedral bells ringing
Berlin Cathedral (German: Berliner Dom), also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island in central Berlin. Having its origins as a castle chapel for the Berlin Palace, several structures have served to house the church since the 15th century. The present collegiate church was built from 1894 to 1905 by order of Emperor William II according to plans by Julius Raschdorff in Renaissance and Baroque Revival styles. The listed building is the largest Protestant church in Germany and one of the most important dynastic tombs in Europe. In addition to church services, the cathedral is used for state ceremonies, concerts and other events.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berlin Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.