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suppressing Revolt ?); .to the left, a sphinx supporting a woman en¬
grossed in a document (Statecraft ?). The front and rear of the base
each bear three reliefs: in front, the German Michael in leading-
strings, stirred up to fight, and victorious in combat; behind, Ger-
mania in the chariot of victory, the ally of Labour and Art, and
hailed as the Bringer of Peace.
On the W. side of the Konigs-Platz is Kroll's Establishment,
founded in 1842, built in 1852 by Titz, and now leased by the
management of the royal theatres and used as the New Opera
Theatre (p. 27; garden-concerts see p. 30).
In front of it, as a counterpart to the Bismarck Monument, a
Monument to Moltke (PI. R, 17, 20), by Uphues, was erected
in 1905. On a large platform enclosed by a parapet rises a pedestal
20 ft. in height, bearing the marble statue (18 ft. high) of the field-
marshal, 'the right man in the right war', in a slightly leaning
position.
To the N. of the Konigs-Platz lies the Alsen-Platz, adorned in
1904 with a bronze statue of Field-Marshal Count Roon (d. 1879),
by Magnussen, on a granite pedestal. To the W. are the premises
of the General Staff (PL R, 20), where Moltke worked and died in
1901. Opposite its N.E. side, Moltke Str. 3, is the Austrian Em¬
bassy. — From the Kronprinzen-Ufer, on the Spree, the Moltke-
Briicke leads to the N.W. to the street known as Alt-Moabit, to the
left in which, close to the Spree, is the Provinzial-Steuergebuude
(PL R, 17), or Office of the Local Tax Commissioners, with bronze
statues of the finance-ministers Motz (d. 1830) and Muussen (d. 1834),
who took an active part in the foundation of the German Zollverein
or Customs Union, by Herter and Hundrieser. — Opposite, at a
little distance, rises the handsome Lehrte Station (Pi. R, 18, 21),
connected with a station of the Studtbuhn and a postal station
(both in the Invaliden-Str., p. 141); tramways see p. 141, at the
Exhibition Park.
Opposite the Lehrte Station is the German Colonial Mu¬
seum (PI. R, 17; adm., see p. 37). Besides ethnographic collections
and specimens of produce, it contains a number of dioramic views
from the German colonies, reproductions of the dwellings and types
of the natives, etc.
Five paintings, by Hellgreve, in the restaurant, illustrate the occupation
of German colonies. To the right is a lecture-room. Below are dioramas
of the Cameroons and the Naukluft (S.W. Africa); native huts from the
Cameroons and Togo; a camp of Hereros; Chinese tavern. — Above (to
the left): Ivory - traders on the Victoria Nyanza; Arab dwelling at Dar-
es-Salam, with diorama of the harbour; Hindoo shop; street and temple
in Kiowchow, with diorama of the bay; panorama of Blanche Bay in the
Bismarck Archipelago; native huts from the Bismarck Archipelago; houses
from New Guinea, with a diorama of Stephansort.
Beyond the Museum in Alt-Moabit lies the Ausstellungs-