Protestant Church of Plötzensee

As it is located close to the former Plötzensee Prison, the church-building was designed as a memorial for the victims of National Socialism.

The architects Gerd Neumann, Dietmar Grötzebach and Günther Plessow created the buildings, which include a church, a day-care facility for children, a youth centre, apartments, offices and other rooms for congregational use.

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 involve them more intensely in the service.

There is a close Ecumenical cooperation with the nearby Roman Catholic memorial church Maria Regina Martyrum and the Carmelite monastery adjunct to it.