The original plan had been to re-erect the church on the Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) near Potsdam. But in the meantime, this plan was discarded in favour of a site at the remote village of "Brückenberg" near "Krummhübel" in the Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains), now the Karkonosze mountains, in the province of Silesia. The idea probably came from countess Friederike von Reden of "Buchwald", now Bukowiec, whose memorial stands beside the church. Count Christian Leopold von Schaffgotsch of "Warmbrunn", now Cieplice, donated the site.