Der Berliner Dom am Lustgarten von Südwesten

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With the founding of the Reich in 1871, the Hohenzollern's claim to a state and court church, which was also supposed to be the main church of Protestantism, learned new buoyancy. and commissioned 1892 Julius Carl and Otto Raschdorff with his implementation. The cathedral, designed in Rome based on the Peterskirche in Rome, received its external form in 1894-99 - the construction fence and a scaffolding indicate the conclusion of this work. On February 27, 1905, the inauguration found Stat. In 1975, the partially war-destroyed building in a simplified form, without monument church on the north side, was visible. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke, built in 1886-89 by Theodor Rospatt (since 1969 Liebknecht-Brücke), in the background the development of Burgstrasse on the eastern banks of Spree.