Overview
- Doors reopened with a free open day on February 28, where visitors queued up to an hour to enter the redesigned crypt.
- A fest service on March 1 featured a sermon by Dorothee Wüst, with remarks from Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer and Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner.
- The refurbishment added climate control, a revised visitor route, an elevator for barrier-free entry, an interactive model and touchpads, and repositioned the coffins.
- Standard admission now costs €15, up from €10 before the closure, according to Dom preacher Stefan Scholpp.
- The Hohenzollerngruft is one of Europe’s largest dynastic burial sites, holding 91 coffins from the 16th to early 20th centuries, including Friedrich I and Sophie Charlotte.