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Index
Architectural
Centre
Babylon
Cinema
Anatomical
Theatre
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst.
Canal Gardens
Franciscan
Monastery
Künstlerheim
Luise
Lunch
Lecture Guggenh.
Ackerstr. Market Hall
Room
of Silence
Tajikistan
Tearoom
St.
Michael's Church
Nicolai
House
Mori-Ogai Memorial
Honigmond Hotels
Orphtheatre
Berlin
Teahouse
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August
Soller, a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, built the Michaelskirche between 1851-61. It was the second Catholic church in the
city. The building, hailed by Theodor Fontane as the loveliest church in Berlin, looks very
Italian. Instead of a tower it is crowned by August Kiss’s figure of Michel, the Archangel and a graceful
cupola. The central part of the red brick building is still in ruins after intense damage during the Second World War. But today the church is no longer in its previous disastrous position directly on the border between East and West, and its outstanding influence on town planning is again clearly
visible. It lies right in the middle of the main axis of the old Louisenstädtische Canal on the border between Kreuzberg and Mitte and dominates the gardens and water features that have been restored on historical lines within the old canal
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