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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Berliner Dom by ConchiGReyes



With its magnificent dome, the Berlin Cathedral is definitely one of the capital’s crowd pullers. Located in the northern area of the Spree Island, many of the buildings that were previously located here date all the way back to the 15th century. In the 19th century, the ruling family of Germany, the house of Hohenzollern, was living right next door in the Berlin Castle and they thought that Schinkel’s rather modest domed cathedral no longer corresponded to the image they wanted to project of their family. King Frederick William IV thus decided that a magnificent cathedral should be built. The cornerstone of this beautiful cathedral was laid in 1894 and the inauguration ceremony took place in 1905. During World War II, the cathedral suffered heavy damage. Only in 1975 did the GDR begin restoring it. The restoration was finally completed four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1993. Con su cúpula fácilmente divisable desde lejos, la evangélica Berliner Dom es un imán para los visitantes de la ciudad. Situada en la zona norte de la isla Spree, la construcción original se remonta al s. XV. En el s. XIX, los miembros de la dinastía Hohenzollern, que residían en el colindante Castillo de Berlín, pensaron que la bastante modesta Catedral Schinkel que existía entonces, ya no se correspondía con las pretensiones de la monarquía. Así que, por iniciativa del rey Federico Guillermo IV, se decidió construir una suntuosa catedral. En 1894 se sentaron los cimientos de la representativa iglesia y la inauguración tuvo lugar en 1905. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial el edificio sufrió grandes daños y hasta 1975 la RDA no comenzó la restauración. Los trabajos no se concluyeron hasta solo cuatro años después de la caída del Muro, en 1993. via 500px http://j.mp/Y2J1QK

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