Rick Steves Snapshot Berlin by Rick Steves

Author:Rick Steves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2016-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapel of Reconciliation (Kapelle der Versöhnung): Just beyond the Wall section (to the left), this chapel marks the spot of the late-19th-century Church of Reconciliation, which survived WWII bombs—but not the communists. Notice the larger footprint of the original church in the field around the chapel. When the Wall was built, the church wound up right in the middle of the death strip. It was torn down in 1985, supposedly because it got in the way of the border guards’ sight lines. (This coincided with a period in which anti-DDR opposition movements were percolating in Christian churches, prompting the atheistic regime to destroy several houses of worship.) Inside the church, the carved wooden altarpiece was saved from the original structure. The chapel hosts daily prayer services for the victims of the Wall.

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