Herz-Jesu-Kirche
This is the second church which belongs to the St. Hedwig community, the oldest catholic community of Berlin. It was the first church integrated into the front of a street.
Originally it was the intention to have the church standing completely free at the nearby Teutoburger Platz. But Empress Auguste Victoria (1858-1921) vetoed the plan. In consequence the church was built in necromantic style after a plan of Christoph Hahl at the Fehrberlliner Strasse in the year 1898. The church came in time for the immigration of many catholic people from Silesia, East Prussia, the Rhine-Land and Poland getting in North-East Berlin. Also on the terrain of the Herz-Jesu vicarage the relief work of the ordinaries of the Bishop was installed. This relief organisation gave moral, legal and material support to people persecuted by the National socialist regime and worked under the charge of Dr. Margarete Sommer (since 1941). The organisation helped Jews to flee over the borders and also offered protection to people who had gone into hiding, for instance in the cellar of the Herz-Jesu church. After 1945 there was the catholic school by the name of Theresa on its ground, then the only confessional Lyceum of the GDR.