Karl Friedrich Schinkel (you've seen his grave in past blog posts) pretty much designed and built most of the 'who's who' buildings in Berlin. This is his 'Friedrichs Werdersche' Church, completed in 1830. It was damaged after the war, and the East German gov't being not to keen on spending money on relgion left it to rot until 1982, when it was renovated and turned into the 'Schinkel Museum'.
Shall we go in?...
They have turned it into a little bit of a museum. Here is a copy of a famous statue - I dedicate this to my sisters, Suzanne and Julia - it makes me think of them ;)
I loved how my camera made the surrounding area of the window SO dark - it's almost like the light is truly the only thing that is there...
Here is a look at the inside of the church before the renovation work started....
And here is what it looks like now!
There he be! Schinkel...what a guy. He is to Berlin what Sir Christopher Wren was to London....
We saw in an earlier post that he was born in a town called Neuruppin (there is an earlier post of Neuruppin). His town was destroyed in a great fire when he was a little boy; his dad died weeks later from the effects of trying to put out the fire....his mother and siblings lived in a 'Widows of Pastors' house in Berlin....it's just amazing how some people overcome afflictions...his town was razed and so he 'designed' and 'rebuilt' the Berlin that people would come to know. Amazing stuff....
