German
Softcover
14 x 22.5 cm
264 pages
70 pictures
ISBN 978-3-938780-23-7
Content
- Typology of churches
- Social and historical backgrounds
- Buildings sites, finances, bureaucracy
- From the first initiatives to the institutionalization of church building
66 new churches were built in Berlin during the reign of emperor Wilhelm II within the area surrounded by the circle line. These buildings with their towers have shaped the city’s appearance ever since. The intensity of church building between 1888 and 1914 was unparalleled, in some years 20 construction sites of both confessions were in the capital at the same time – some on representative squares, some along the streets, some in courtyards of apartment buildings. Kirchen für Berlin presents for the first time this historical phenomenon analyzing the structures and institutions involved and which functions, significance and influence they had. In the center of the publication are not the individual churches and parishes but the strategies, approaches actions taken by the state, the municipal administration as well the two confessions.
