St. Nicholas' Church Museum
Reconstructed medieval church of twin stone towers holding the city's oldest surviving rooms and a history museum.
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This guide to St. Nicholas' Church Museum follows Berlin's oldest church from its stone foundations around 1230 through World War Two, when Allied bombing left it a gutted ruin in the flattened medieval quarter. It traces the ten years a minister named Wilhelm Wessel preached inside these walls, and how his son Horst grew from that upbringing into a Nazi street brawler whose marching song became the party's anthem. The church held its final service in October 1938, then sat in ruins for decades.
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