Abstract
Schinkel's design of the Memorial Cathedral at the Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1814-15) showed a prototype of an architectural monunent at the beginning of 19th cencury, which can be seen as a social sign to represent the ideal image of the national state, which included also the character of an institution to educate and cultivate the nation. For this purpose Schinkel has created the new methode to design an architectural form, which can be analysed in three dimensions (II.-IV.). The design of the urban space was a romantic one. Schinkel tried to dissolve the conventional boundary between town and country, through founding a new religious place at the periphery of the town, which was formed by means of romantic landscape painting. The gothic style was chosen and regarded as a medium to express the character of the lively organic society, and evolutionable according to the social spirit of the age. The composition of the architectural form with three blocks, i.e. the pyramidal tower, the nave in rectangular plan and the concentric chor, and the horizontal articulation of the whole form, meant that the idealistic tendency to the abstract form in the revolutionary architecture was self-evident and put into developement.
