Overview
- Visitor numbers one year after reopening have failed to meet the pre-opening estimate of 80,000 to 90,000 annually, leading the foundation to classify 2025 as a probe year.
- The permanent exhibition “Glaube, Macht und Militär” and ground-floor chapel programming have received strong praise for their critical engagement with Prussian and Nazi-era history.
- Stiftung Garnisonkirche has requested deferred repayments on its multimillion-euro loan and is negotiating new terms with three church lenders ahead of an end-September deadline.
- Foundation leaders maintain they are not insolvent and are pursuing potential institutional funding from the city of Potsdam or the state of Brandenburg.
- The site’s reconstruction continues to stir debate over its militaristic past even as it seeks to fulfill President Steinmeier’s vision of becoming a place for democratic education.