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The architecture shows influences of ideas that came up during a reform-period of the Protestant church in Germany during the 1960s: the benches are arranged in a square (quadrangle) around the altar in the centre. This was meant to create a feeling of community among those who worship in here and to
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The church and the church-centre were built in the years between 1968 and 1970 for congregants living in the recently built Paul-Hertz-settlement in this area. The architects Gerd Neumann, Dietmar Grötzebach and Günther Plessow created the buildings, which include a church, a day-care facility for
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involve them more intensely in the service. Almost contradicting to this intention the architecture of the church refers to the prisons of Plötzensee: the cupola made of concrete reminds the worshiper of a prison cell; light comes only from a single window right above the altar.
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I. Mössinger/U. Saltin: Die ökumenische Gedenk-Region Charlottenburg-Nord/Plötzensee: Alfred Hrdlickas "Plötzenseer Totentanz". In: Reiner Albert, Roland Hartung, Günther Saltin (Hg.): Alfred-Delp-Jahrbuch Band 3/2009. Alfred Delp und die Kunst, LIT Verlag 2009,
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and the Carmelite monastery adjunct to it. This cooperation is especially dedicated to remember the martyrs of Plötzensee. The most important ecumenical memorial events of these churches are the
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Bringfried Naumann: Der Plötzenseer Totentanz im Evangelischen Gemeindezentrum Plötzensee. 2. Auflage 1993 (Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Reihe: Der Kleine Kunstführer),
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The church premises were designed as a place of memorial from the beginning. Alfred Hrdlicka created the
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and was inaugurated in 1970 as the second church building of the Protestant Congregation in
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There is a close Ecumenical cooperation with the nearby Roman Catholic memorial church
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children, a youth centre, apartments, offices and other rooms for congregational use.
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Die Predigten von Plötzensee. Zur Herausforderung des modernen Märtyrers.
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every January and the annual anniversary of the assassination-attempt of
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Ecumenical Memorial Centre Plötzensee - Christians and Resistance
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Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
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has been founded in the Protestant Church of Plötzensee.
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Homepage of the Protestant Church of Charlottenburg-Nord
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Berlin-Charlottenburg-Nord
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Plötzensee Prison
National Socialism
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Alfred Hrdlicka

Maria Regina Martyrum
Ecumenical Plötzensee Days
20 July 1944
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Homepage of the Protestant Church of Charlottenburg-Nord

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