![]() ![]() That chapel serves parish members and visitors as a place for commemoration and prayer. An archaeological window exposes the foundation walls that had been buried beneath the surface. ![]() The tower cross and relics from the destroyed church’s column capitals lie on the chapel grounds. In front of the chapel, the original church bells are suspended in a horizontal bell tower and rung by hand. The altarpiece, which was removed from the church before demolition, and a cellar staircase with relics of a bricked-up cellar door from 1961, are on display inside the chapel. To accommodate the ongoing expansion of the border grounds, the GDR government dynamited the church in 1985. After the Wall was built in 1961, the church of the Protestant Reconciliation Parish, which stood inaccessible within the border strip, became a symbol of Germany and Europe’s division. The Chapel of Reconciliation, dedicated in 2000, was built on the exact spot where the Reconciliation Church had once stood. ![]()
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