Berlin Cathedral Dom

Berlin Cathedral in the Mitte district, designed by Julius Carl Raschdorff, was built in 1894-1905 on the site of an earlier cathedral church dating from the time of Frederick the Great (1747-50, to a design by Johann Boumann the Elder). The building, in the New Baroque style, is divided into three main sections: in the north the dilapidated Memorial Church, in the south the Baptismal and Nuptial Church and in the center the Parish Church with 2,000 seats.

Must-see attractions nearby:

Brandenburg Gate

Charlottenburg Palace

Pergamon Museum

Gendarmenmarkt

Zoological Gardens

Under the Lime-Trees Avenue

Museum of Applied Art

The very top of the dome is 74.8 m/245ft high and the oldest bell dates from 1532. This sacred building is 116 m/380ft high, 114 m/374ft long and 73 m/240ft deep, and was badly damaged in the war. After having been made safe, it took eight years of painstaking work between 1974 and 1982 to restore it fully. The interior was also restored in the 1990s.

The Imperial Staircase, which has been open to the public again since July, 1989 (entrance on Lustgarten side), leads to the Parish Church and is decorated with bronze cornices and thirteen tempera paintings by the Berlin landscape painter Albert Hertel (1905), nine of which follow the theme of The Life of Christ.