Friedrichswerder Church

Berlin's first Neo-Gothic church was the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, an architect better known for his Neoclassical buildings. The Friedrichswerder Church (Friedrichswerdersche Kirche) was built under his direction between 1824 and 1831 and is now a protected architectural heritage monument.

The building belongs to the Berlin State Museums and is maintained by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Its interior holds a display from the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery): a collection of nineteenth-century German sculpture with works by Johann Gottfried Schadow, Christian Daniel Rauch and Schinkel himself, among others. On the upper floor, an exhibition covers Schinkel's life and work, so the architect is presented inside one of his own buildings.

The museum suits visitors interested in nineteenth-century German sculpture, in Schinkel, or in the early Gothic Revival in Berlin.