St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff for King Frederick II, who ordered the church and donated the land. The infobox credits Hans Schwippert with the reconstruction. The text says construction ran from 1747 to 1773, with the church opened on November 1, 1773, while the infobox lists 1887 as the original completion date.
The article calls the original Baroque and the 1952 to 1963 reconstruction post-war modernism. It uses stone, copper and stucco. The maximum height is 253 feet (77 m) including a 2 m cross, the outer dome is 233 feet (71 m) and the spire is 246 feet (75 m).
Bombing on March 1, 1943 heavily damaged it. It stood in East Berlin from 1949 to 1990, closed for renovation on September 1, 2018 and reopened on November 24, 2024 with a modern interior. It is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Berlin. The article gives no hours.
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