Kriegsakademie an der Ecke Dorotheenstraße / Neue Wilhelmstraße

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1879-83 is built on the terrain of the former Pontonhof on Dorotheenstraße-the ship's bodies of the former Prussian army were stored here-an extension of the war academy on the subsequent property under the Linden 74. The new four-storey teaching and office building is carried out under the direction of Franz Heinrich Schwechten in the style of the neo-Renaissance and is adorned at the main front to Dorotheenstraße (left) by a middle risalite with a rich ornamentation and on the western narrow side to the new Wilhelmstrasse with an extinguishing bay about. Cut right on the right A residential and commercial building from the 18th century, in which the colonial goods shop Fritz Hoppe operates until 1883. Links the view over the tracks of the horse's railway to the southern side of Dorotheenstrasse with several residential buildings built in the second half of the 19th century. From the entire development, nothing is preserved today.