Description
This book focuses on one part of the long history of German-Jerusalemite relations; the 70-year period between the founding of the Anglo-Prussian Bishopric and the First World War, the ‘golden time of German involvement in Palestine’. To this day, a number of imposing buildings throughout the city stand testament to this era. These include the Hospital of the Empress Auguste Viktoria Stiftung (Augusta Victoria Foundation) on the Mount of Olives, the Redeemer Church near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City, the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, and the German Colony, the settlement of members of the Temple Society, which gives a district of West Jerusalem its name. The book examines how the commitment of a wide range of people, and the way it took shape, can only be understood against the background of the German history of the time. A special focus of this monograph is thereby the journey to and stay in Jerusalem of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898 as well as the visit’s repercussions, especially its legacy in terms of architecture that can be traced until this day.
