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Charlottenburg around 1800

Johann Christian Gottfried Dressel – Preacher, Reformer, and Chronicler in Old Charlottenburg - The exhibition was first shown last year on the 200th anniversary of his death on October 16, 1824, and will now be on display again from October 7 to 31, 2025, in the Rathausgalerie in Charlottenburg Town Hall.



Dressel was a pastor in Charlottenburg from 1778 to 1824 and during this time shaped the development of his parish and his city. As a staunch representative of the Enlightenment, he reformed the school system and poor relief and helped to improve the living conditions of his fellow citizens.


With his Charlottenburg Chronicle and his diaries, he left posterity a valuable source of information about the social and cultural conditions of the time.


On October 23, Katja Baumeister-Frenzel and Thomas Wolfes will read from these works.



The meeting point is in the old municipal library, the Administrative Information Center (VIZ) in Charlottenburg Town Hall, 2nd floor, room 200 e-f (behind the town hall gallery).



(IN GERMAN)
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October 2025
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