Holy Spirit Hospital

The Holy Spirit Hospital was one of the earliest hospitals in Berlin, established in 1250. It was located on the western side of Spandauer Straße. The hospital was a complex of buildings consisting of a house for the poor and sick, a home for the hospital staff, a small chapel, a preacher and sexton house, a hermitage and a large garden.
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  • Opening hours: Thursday noon—1:00 PM
  • Email: woess@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Protestant
  • Description: former hospital in medieval Berlin
  • Also known as: “Heilig-Geist-Kapelle” and “Heilig-Geist-Spital”
  • Address: Spandauer Straße 1, Mitte, Berlin, 10178
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Berlin Cathedral and Pergamon Museum.

Church
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, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb at the on the in . is situated 240 metres southwest of Holy Spirit Hospital.

Museum
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The is a listed building on the in the of , Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. is situated 460 metres west of Holy Spirit Hospital.

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The Fernsehturm in central was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of communist power. is situated 420 metres east of Holy Spirit Hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and Alt-Berlin.

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, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

Locality
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, also spelled Altberlin, is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . In the 13th century it was the sister town of the old Cölln, located on the northern Island in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Quarter
is a historic district in what is now the district of Berlin.

Holy Spirit Hospital

Latitude
52.52079° or 52° 31′ 15″ north
Longitude
13.40322° or 13° 24′ 12″ east
Inception
~1390
Open location code
9F4MGCC3+87
Open­Street­Map ID
way 217530887
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­chapel
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­protestant
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1594900
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to German—“Holy Spirit Hospital” goes by many names.

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