St. Mary of the Loving Women

The Church of St. Mary Liebfrauen, originally only Liebfrauen Church, also St. Mary or St.-Mary-Liebfrauen Church, is a Roman Catholic church located on Wrangelstraße in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin within the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough.

The church, whose construction was made possible only by a donor, is designed in the neo-Romanesque style, inspired by the Maria Laach Abbey. Although the parish was founded in 1895 as a daughter of St. Michael, the church was not built until 1904–1906 under the direction of the Mainz Cathedral master builder Ludwig Becker. The three-nave church building is clad in natural stone and is flanked on the street front by residential buildings. The church dome was damaged towards the end of World War II and was only rebuilt in a simplified form. The St. Mary Church underwent extensive renovations in 1993; renovation work on the church forecourt and the Mary Fountain in its center, co-financed by the Berlin Senate, was completed in 2001. The church features a Steinmeyer organ from 1914. In the 1990s, it was furnished with artworks from contemporary art.

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