Made it back to Berlin for a few day of work meetings last week, for this first time since 2017. Spent almost all the time in our office and its environs, in a for-me entirely new quarter of the city where I discovered amongst other things this interesting little legacy gateway / entrance.
So this rather differently-styled entrance is to the church noted in a previous post as Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church. What I’d never tuned into was just how very baroque and old-style some of those early protestants could be. For example, I blithely assumed it was a catholic church because when I was growing up, the only place you saw an actual body on the cross in the sanctuary was in catholic churches. Similarly, I don’t usually see such dramatic renditions of Archangel Michael (after whom this church is named) trampling Satan as one sees in the statues above this main entrance. Eek, eh? All this imagery of trampling, taming, binary good-evil simplifications of complex realities and so on leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth, tbh, so I’ma just pop all my remaining pics of this particular building in this one post and move on to other views in our future HH posts 😊.
As noted in the last entry for this series, one finds urban canals even outside NL, once one starts looking. Hadn’t been to this particular city in quite some time, and you’ll be seeing more of it in upcoming posts. If you’d like to verify your own guess about which city it is, open in full-screen view so you can see the “categories” and “tags” :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 