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Since the moment Herder started to sail, carrying a dynamic and revolutionary perspective of history, full of a notion of culture as the true human nature, showing the democratic individualism as a political conviction, a deep interest in the collection of popular culture and a creative fascination called the reason for living (i.e. the dimensions of what we would later call the unconscious). Germany is the birth place of Romanticism, and given the popularity of this movement in terms of the aesthetic disposition of the spirit, without which is not possible to understand the contemporary history of art and ideas, he felt from the beginning through the ruins, from which emanate a feeling that double fertilization is expressed in deep melancholy fascination by the power of human invention and creation as an obnubilante fatalism product no less convinced of the destructive power of nature and time – it is so tragic that Berlin would become the end of the Second World War in a debris field with sufficient credentials to be the capital of sorrow for excellence, both suffered as monstrously caused the city regarding the development of the Natural History of Destruction, Sebald was talking about so as disruptive.
Fortunately, all that is far behind, and Berlin returns to be a vibrant, dynamic and creative city, where are nothing but fruitful, productive lives. However, there are still lots of reminders of that unspeakable horror to which we have no excuses to forget and learn the lessons of a so atrocious past.
Of all these historical buildings, perhaps Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church’s tower www.gedaechtniskirche-berlin.de/KWG/index.php, neo-Romanesque building, built between 1891 and 1895 with the objective of preserving a glorious memory of what it was the highest point of Berlin for many years (113 meters), this is the memory of German ruler, during whose term curiously, governed the last king of Prussia and the last German Emperor, was an unprecedented military buildup the most devastating war the world had known to date, tragic precedent of what was yet to come.
Until its destruction by Allied bombing during the Second World War, Berliners hated the church and consistently asked for its demolition in the early twenties. However, after being reduced to ruins, they began to love it like no other building in the city, a love that led them to move successfully against the demolition and build on the site a new building.
Paul Oilzum
Just next to it, and as a part of one of the liveliest meeting points of the city, a modern octagonal church in which network of concrete are 33,000 pieces of glass inserted in Chartres added to their interior, it is possible to appreciate a cross from Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by Nazi bombs in a perpetual blue twilight. Perhaps you would like to visit this place when you rent apartments in Berlin
