Blick auf die Nordseite des Potsdamer Platzes

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The view goes from the forecourt of the Potsdam train station via Potsdamer Platz in the north. After 1871 and with the increase in traffic, a pulsating junction of the imperial capital is created here. The proximity UZM Potsdamer Bahnhof and the good transport connections to the city center favor a lively hotel construction. On the property between Bellevue and Königgrätzer Straße (since 1925 and again since 1947 Ebertstraße) the Grand Hotel Bellevue (left) and it was created compared to him in 1892 (93 The Palace Hotel. The two 5-storey splendid buildings after designs by Ludwig Heims distinguished richly decorated facades and the latest equipment. The Hotel Bellevue was demolished in 1931 for the construction of the Columbiahahaus, the Palace Hotel fell to the bombs of the World War II Sacrifice. In 1902 electric trams crossed Potsdamer Platz, here line 14 from Marheinekeplatz UZM Kriminalgericht in Moabit.