Berlin: area by area – Tiergarten – St Matthäus Kirche

With the enormous growth in the population of Berlin in the 19th century there was also a growing need for new parish churches. The most productive church architect in the middle decades of the century, and one of the major architects in the period after Schinkel, was Schinkel's former pupil August Stüler, who also succeeded him as the head of the Prussian high building deputation.
One of his most beautiful church buildings - and at least topographically outstanding - is the Matthäus­kirche in what is now the Kulturforum.