Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Probably the most significant are the remains of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, consecrated in 1895 and all but destroyed during a night of air raids by Allied bombers in November 1943.
The photograph of the remains (below) were taken when we were in Berlin in 2008. Also below are photographs of the inside of the entrance hall below the ruin of the old spire.
Two from around the walls:
And two of the ceiling:
When we visited Berlin in 2008 I took my own photographs of the spire, but this time found the remains hidden inside shrouded scaffolding (below) while engineers assess the safety of the structure. The glass block buildings alongside is the new church consecrated in 1961.
The blue glass blocks (below) are the walls of the new place of worship from the inside.
The two photographs below all show buildings constructed post WW 2. Potsdamer Platz was virtually obliterated by Allied bombers, and then divided by the “Wall”. The photo Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz is one of the entrances to the underground railway station.
Museum Island
The final days of Berlin must have included fierce fighting around the buildings on Museum Island going by the still visible damage from small arms and larger calibre projectiles.
The external columns and walls of the Neues Museum exhibit numerous scars (below). Not hard to imagine soldiers sheltering behind the columns and inside windows and doors to return fire.
From the still-visible damage to the stonework around the base of bridges to the island over the Spree (below), the defenders probably viewed the river as a moat.
