As an "architect between historicism and modernism", Schinkel Prize winner Franz-Heinrich Schwechten (1841-1924) first became known for the Anhalter Bahnhof. Other highly functional industrial buildings followed, as well as the first Philharmonic Hall and several representative administrative buildings, before his neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic churches, above all the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, made him appear as a favorite of Kaiser Wilhelm II. All of his buildings were of high quality and technically at the cutting edge of their time.

Franz Schwechten, Archiv Akademie der Künste

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, the seven-hour bus tour with the architectural historians Prof. Dr. Kerstin Wittmann-Englert and Bettina Held as well as retired pastor Martin Germer will take you through five stations from the Apostel-Paulus Church and Schwechten's grave via the Anhalter Bahnhof, the Kulturbrauerei (lunch snack there, not included in the participant fee), the AEG appliance factory with the civil servants' gate to the Memorial Church.

Start at 9.30 a.m. in the Apostel-Paulus-Kirche Schöneberg, Grunewaldstraße 77a, Eisenacher Straße subway station, finishes after 4 p.m. with a climb up the tower ruins of the Gedächtniskirche.

Suitable for people with walking difficulties
Cost: €40
Aimed at: adults
in German

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