Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche

Stand on Hauptstraße to see the angular roof and walls break against each other.

Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel, Peter Pfankuch · 1962 · Berlin

Story

Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel and Peter Pfankuch built this church between 1958 and 1962. It replaced a war-damaged Art Nouveau church on the same site.

Its angular forms are early work by the team behind the Hygiene Institute, a key brutalist building in Berlin.