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Article: Ships in time.(church conversion and library in Muncheberg, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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A medieval Prussian church, restored by Schinkel and ruined in the Second World War, has been brought back to life by inserting the town library and generating symbiosis between temporal and spiritual.
Between Berlin and the not very distant Polish border is the little town of Muncheberg clustering round the Marienkirche, the thirteenth-century mother church carved out of rough stone with beautifully honed window and door openings in brick. In the early nineteenth century, Schinkel added a semi-attached campanile and Gothick details like the porches. After the destruction of Prussia in the Second World War, the church was a ruined shell, with the vestiges of its ...