Franziskaner-Klosterkirche
Photograph Wikimedia Commons Taken on 27 June 2011, 10:04:37 CC BY
One of the most interesting and in its own way beautiful sights in Berlin, in my opinion, are the remains of this once beautiful church with a storied history. Near the very end of WWII it was hit by allied bombs and the remains are in a park for public view. The Franziskaner-Klosterkirche was a church in the Mitte district of Berlin, founded in 1250 and now in ruins. It was founded in 1250 in the early Gothic style as a monastery church for a Franciscan house. It was a fieldstone church, 52 metres long and 16 metres wide. Its remains can be found in the north wall of the present ruins. This was replaced with a three-aisled brick basilica church, begun at the end of the 13th century and completed in the first half of the 14th century, whose ruins still survive. The monastery was closed due to the Protestant Reformation's arrival in Berlin in 1539. None of the monastic buildings survive, though some of them housed Berlin's first printing press from 1571 and the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster from 1574. Extensive renovations were carried out in the first half of the 19th century – a gabled tower was demolished in 1826, two new towers were built on the west side in 1842, a
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Germany photographs taken on 2011-06-27Franziskaner-Klosterkirche, BerlinFiles with coordinates missing SDC location of creationFlickr images reviewed by FlickreviewR 2Images by Paul VanDerWerf
