Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church stands in Berlin at the KurfÃÂürstendamm. The old church has been built in 1891-1895 after plans from Franz Schwechten.
Emperor Wilhelm II. ordered the construction of the church in honors of his grandfather Wilhelm I. The neo-romanesque stile refers to many romanesque churches in the Rhineland.
The original construction was of impressioning monumentality and size. Mosaics inside the church recalled the life and work of Emperon Wilhelm I. During World War II, the church has been destroyed during a bombing in 1943. The only remainder of the old building is the ruin of the belfry.
After the war, from 1951 to 1961, a new church has been built at the same site after the plans of Egon Eiermann.