St. Nicholas' Church Museum

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.