Marien-Kapelle

Marien-Kapelle stands within the St. Hedwig Hospital complex in central Berlin as an eastward extension of its main building. Built between 1851 and 1854 to designs by church architect Vinzenz Statz, the compact chapel has high-set windows and a slender stair tower with a hexagonal base and pyramid roof.

Inside, wooden pews form two parallel rows beneath a small organ and wrought-iron chandelier. A carved mid-eighteenth-century figure of Mary holding the infant Jesus stands above the altar, beneath a colourful four-part window showing the Eye of Providence. Villeroy and Boch mosaics cover the floor, presenting fire, water, air and earth alongside the Evangelists and Jesus Christ. Colourful panels illustrate the Stations of the Cross, while paintings include the Good Shepherd and Saint Hedwig, with portraits of ten Borromean Order superiors nearby.

A wooden partition decorated with leaf garlands separates the organ from the main space, and a copper holy-water basin occupies one corner. On the hospital grounds, the deconsecrated Annakapelle contains a stained-glass window by Charles Crodel and is intended as an open studio.