Blick von der Mittelpromenade der Straße Unter den Linden auf das Brandenburger Tor

 Alemanha > Berlin

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The viewer stands at the intersection of the street Unter den Linden/Wilhelmstraße and looks west to the Brandenburg Gate. On the left the cut front of the speaker Palais, under the Linden 1. According to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the previous building from 1737 was increased in 1829-30 and prepared as a residential building for the director of the royal spectacles, Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von editor. The characterful palace on the corner of the Pariser Platz is carried out in the Florentine style and has significantly influenced the later design of the area. Gröditzberg Palais. The building goes back to a house converted by Friedrich August Stüler for the banker Wilhelm Christian Benecke von Gröditzberg from the 18th century. After Benecke's death in 1860 it was used as a residential and commercial building in 1880, among other things, the Consulate General of Greece (1922/23 conversion, burned down in World War II, burned down in 1960).