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| Photo by Bo. W |
Almost every city has a church destroyed in World War
II, as a tourist attraction in Germany. It is to show people the terrible war,
suggesting that the good people of peace. Berlin is no exception, retains
relics of the war, the church was destroyed. Kaiser Wilhelm
Memorial Church (Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtnis Kirche).
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| Photo by Bo. W |
Go to Berlin Zoo, it's easy to see this very special
building - the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (in German: Kaiser Wilhelm
Gedachtnis Kirche). That broken roof, it tells the history of that period cannot
be recalled. That year, in honor of Emperor William I of prominent buildings,
now used as the bell tower of the wreckage has become a sign of Berlin and the
whole of Germany. Its significance goes far beyond a building, a relic of the
connotation.
In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (German: Kaiser Wilhelm
Gedachtnis Kirche) established. Nobody had expected after a hundred years the
building has become the "wreckage", and reputation far too high then.
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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (German: Kaiser Wilhelm
Gedächtnis Kirche), it was Kaiser Wilhelm II in honor of his grandfather
Wilhelm I, in 1891-1895 between the construction, a mix of Gothic and
Romanesque style church. Church bell tower 113 meters high,
decorated with reliefs and mosaics inside. In World War II, the church was
destroyed, leaving only part of the wreckage. After World War II
reconstruction, the people of Berlin decided to retain the church tower
wreckage, as a warning to the disaster caused by the war and destruction.
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| Photo by Bo. W |
Built around the wreckage of modern style of the new
church. Today Belfry wreckage was surrounded by a modern building. Kaiser
Wilhelm Memorial Church (German: Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche), its
interior mosaic painting is the ancient kings of Prussia Hohenzollern family.
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The new modern style church, dividing the walls into
more than 30,000 small square window for mainly blue stained glass mosaic. The
Elector relief, showing the statue of Hohenzollern ruler’s generations. Now the
new church bell tower, and the wreckage of the old church tower side by side.
More vividly recount to people yesterday, today and tomorrow in Berlin.
