Castle Church

The neo-Gothic castle church was built between 1855 and 1859 by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel and is one of his main works in Neustrelitz.
The old castle chapel in Neustrelitz was small, and the Protestant parishes of Neustrelitz grew steadily with the increasing population in the early 19th century. The architecturally minded Grand Duke Georg had already realized numerous buildings with Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel, who at that time was already in charge of the entire construction administration of the state. In his first design, Buttel oriented himself towards the Gothic monastery church of Batalha in Portugal. However, this church was built of sandstone, and a construction using this material would have incurred enormous costs. The plans became too large and too expensive. Grand Duke Georg insisted on a more modest solution, and Buttel had to revise his design. As a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Architecture and a collaborator of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, he was familiar with Schinkel's plans for the Alexander Nevsky Chapel near Petersburg. Architectural details such as the pinnacles beside the portal indicate that Buttel was inspired by Schinkel.

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