Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz

Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz
The main entrance towards Hohenzollernplatz and the rectory built right adjacent to the church.
Basic information
Location	Wilmersdorf, a locality of Berlin
Geographic coordinates	52°29′39″N 13°19′37″E / 52.494143°N 13.326995°E / 52.494143; 13.326995Coordinates: 52°29′39″N 13°19′37″E / 52.494143°N 13.326995°E / 52.494143; 13.326995
Affiliation	United Protestant
District	Sprengel Berlin (region), Kirchenkreis Wilmersdorf (deanery)
Province	Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
Country	Germany
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Ossip Klarwein with Fritz Höger
Architectural style	Brick Expressionism
Completed	1933, destroyed 1943, gradually reconstructed until 1965
Specifications
Spire height	66 meters
Materials	clinker brick

Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz (Church at Hohenzollernplatz ) is the church of the Evangelical Congregation at Hohenzollernplatz, a member of today's Protestant umbrella Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The church is located at the eastern side of Hohenzollernplatz square in the locality of Wilmersdorf, in Berlin's borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The building is considered one of the main pieces of Brick Expressionism. And it is a testimonial of unique quality of expressionist church architecture in Berlin. The naming of the church after the square was originally a solution for the time being, until another name might be chosen. Meanwhile, the name has become a brand, even though the debate goes on.

Due to the high number of new parishioners moving in during the first third of the 20th century the existing three churches, to wit Auenkirche, High Master Church, and Church of the Cross, never sufficed to contain the congregants of the Evangelical Wilmersdorf Congregation (German: Ev. Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Wilmersdorf).

In 1927 the then wealthy congregation, whose parish then comprised the locality of Wilmersdorf, therefore decided to build an additional church in the north of its parish. The congregation tendered a competition and the architecture firms of Otto Bartning, Hellmuth Grisebach, Fritz Höger, (in German), Leo Lottermoser and Hans Rottmayr handed in their projects.

Höger prevailed with the design of the architect Ossip Klarwein, who started to work with Höger by 1921, with the design altered by the latter. Klarwein was chief designer (German: Hauptentwurfsarchitekt) in Höger's firm and – according to his contract – all his designs were issued under Höger's name.

The congregation commissioned the Hamburg-based architecture firm of Höger. So Klarwein moved to Joachim-Friedrich-Straße No. 47 (Berlin), shortly before the constructions started, in order to supervise the realisation of the design. The construction lasted from 1930 to 1933. On 19 March 1933 the church was inaugurated, soon after Klarwein, his wife and son Mati emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, because of the Nazi takeover (Machtergreifung).