Maison d`Orange. Dorotheenstraße 26 / Ecke Neustädtische Kirchstraße Nr. 6/7

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In 1704 Calvinist refugees from the southern French county of Orange arrive in Berlin, for the accommodation of which the French-reformed community on the corner plot of Dorotheenstraße 26 (right) and Neustädtische Kirchstraße 6/7 (left) built the maison d`orange. With financial support King Friedrich Wilhelm II, the dilapidated abbey was removed in 1792 and replaced by a two -storey new building, which was used until early 1883. On April 1, 1883, the house was sold and in 1885, after a short intermezzo in Derfflingerstrasse, the Maison d`orange moves into a new building surrounded by gardens in Ulmenstrasse 4, near Lützowplatz. Recording for the "History of the French colony in Brandenburg-Prussia, with special consideration of the Berlin community. At the occasion of the two hundred years on October 29, 1885.