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Potsdamer-Platz. BERLIN.
Section 5. 127
Rathaus (17, 38, 35, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72), and the Schloss-Platz
(17, 63). — To Charlottenburg, Nollendorf-Platz (and Ltttzow- Platz),
Schoneberg, and Zoological Garden a shorter route will soon be afforded by
the Underground Railway (p. 14); entrances to the E. at the Spittelmarkt,
to the N. on the Hausvogiei-Platz.
5. Ethnographical Museum and Museum of
Industrial Art.
The somewhat contracted Potsdamer-Platz (PI. R, 19; comp.
p. 124) is apt to be congested by the enormously developed traffic to
the S.W. quarters of the city.
Tramways (pp. 14-23) run hence to the Brandenburg Gate (1, 6, 7, 9,
14, 15, 23, 24, 51, 52, 56, 57), Gesundbrunnen (23), the Hackeschor Markt
(33, 40, 52, 54, 56), the Neues Tor (51, 57), the Rathaus (60, 61, 66, 67,
69, 71, 72, 74, 81), the Schloss-Platz (60, 61, 80), Lehrte Station, Moabit
(6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 23, 24), the Museum Island and the Opern-Platz (39, 40,
54, III), the Alexander-Platz (60, 61, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 81), the Silesian
Station (1, 6, 9, 7(1, 78, 79, 80), Rixdorf (7, 15), and Schoneberg (23, 24,
40, 51, 56, 57, 60, 61, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 87, 88, III, B, C). — Charlotten¬
burg, the Gorlitz Station, Halle Gate, Nollendorf-Platz, Liitzow-Platz
and the Zoological Garden are more conveniently reached by the Elevated
Railway (p. 13), and the Gendarmen-Markt and Spittel-Markt (Donhoff-
Platz) by the new Underground Railway (p. 14). — In the neighbouring
Link-Str. (see below) is the terminus of the tramways to Friedenau,
Grunewald, Schmargendorf, Steglitz, and Wilmersdorf (see p. 181).
The Potsdamer-Platz, on the right side of which rise the Palast-
Hotel and the Hotel Bellevue, and on the left the Hotel Filrsten¬
hof (p. 3), is traversed by the Koniggriitzer-Strasse (see below). The
shady Bellicvik-Sirassi: (p. 143), leading off to the right to the
Tiergarten, contains at No. 3 the Kilnstler-Haus (PI. R, 19), erect¬
ed in ls9.x by Hoffacker for the Society of Berlin Artists (exhibi¬
tions, see p. 37). Opposite, Nos 19-20, is the Rheingold Restaurant
(p. 8), erected by Bruno Schmitz and gorgeously fitted up, adjoined
by the new Esplanade Hotel (p. 3). For the Potsdamer-Strasse,
see p. 173.
To the S. in the Potsdamer-Platz is the Potsdam Station (PI.
G, 19), erected in 1870-72, combined with the Ringbahn and Wann¬
see Stations (comp. p. 185). Elevated Railway, see p. 13.
The district to the S.E. of the Potsdam Station, to the right of
the Koniggratzer-Strasse, which leads to the Halle Gate, was a
favourite residential quarter, much affected by officials, about the
middle of the 19th cent., when it was popularly known as the 'Privy
Councillors' Quarter'. Now, however, many of the houses are let
out in furnished apartments. — At Nos. 4-5 in the Dessauer-Str.
is the Post-Zeitungs-Ami. In the Bernburger-Str. (No. 22) is the
Philharmonie (PI. G, 19; p. 29), rebuilt in 1888 by Schwechten. The
Beethoven-Saal, in connection with the Philharmonie, is entered
from No. 32 Kbthener-Strasse. The office of the Siemens-Schuckert
Electric Co. is at Askanischer-Platz No. 3.
On the Landwehr Canal (PI. G, 19, 20), farther to the S.W., are the
Berlin Railway Administrative Offices, Schoneberger Ufer 1-4, completed