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152 Section 8. BERLIN. Central Post Office;
Elector Frederick I.; 4. The Council of Berlin-Kolln utting in
judgment on Tyle Wardenberg (ca. 1380), both by Schewenberg;
fi. Frederick William I. inspecting the buildings in the Friedrich¬
stadt (p. 47), by Vogel; 6. Frederick the Great riding in Unter,
den Linden; 7. Return of Frederick William III. and Queen Luise
in 1809, both by Simmler; 8. The Berliners on the battlefield
of Grossbeeren (1813), by Bleibtreu; 9. Frederick William IV.
at the unveiling of the statue of Frederick the Great (1851), by
Simmler. — The Magistrates' Room contains fine panelling and
portraits of the Great Elector and the nine kings of Prussia. *
On the right side, next the Kbnig-Str., we first enter the Library.
— The Mawhensaal ('hall of legends'), the ceiling of which is
adorned with figures from "German legends, by L. Burger, contains
the silver-plate for festivals and marble busts of honorary citizens:
Bismarck, Moltke, Ranke, and Schliemann. — The large Festsaal,
103 ft. in length and 57 in width, is 49 ft. high, extending through
three stories. The pictures of the months in the lunettes are by
O. Begas. This hall also contains statues of Frederick the Great
and Frederick William III., by Sussmann-Hellborn, a bust of Wil¬
liam II., by Schott, and A. von Werner's well-known pictnre of the
Berlin Congress of 1878. — Hence we pass through the TowkCouncil
Chamber and its vestibule, with pictures in the lunettes by Hertel
(Works of charity, in a landscape setting), and regain the staircase.
Three walls of the staircase on the Upper Floor are adorned
with large paintings by Muhlenbruch: to the left, The German States
before the Temple of Concord; in the centre, Germania bearing the
imperial crown in triumph to William I.; to the right, Meritorius
citizens of Berlin (75 portraits). — On the upper floor is the Bhrger-
.saal, with a frieze by .1. von Heyden representing scenes of Berlin
life from the earliest times to the present day.
On the groundfloor is the Ratskeller (p. 10). — The Tower com¬
mands the best ^Panoramic View of Berlin (405 steps; adm., see
p. 39).
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7n'7<f'7R'il7 5?' 64> 66> 6T' 69> 71> 72> 74>> Gendarmen-Markt (60, 61,
La.' \n ll\ Q ,Ge?,nndhrunnen (88), Hackescher Markt (16, 19, 28, 29, 30,
M^tiV 7?«\ T-le Gat^ ,(38' 64> 73> 75)> Kreuzberg (38), Lehrte Station and
nWf Pi.tl^'pn Uct,20T;Platz (17> 63> 66> 67' 81>. nIu^ Tor (16, 19), Nollen-
8lT Bvdn,■;J'Ji'J5)' Potsd!"" St^ion 60, 61, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74,
S's^Tiy'.V't^i9' 5,8)> SHesian Station (16), Schiineberg (59
Stettin" ft'Jii'r, 1-,'a ^ Spittelmarkt (38, 47, 48, 58, 62, 64-67, 69, 70, 72),
Stettin Station (16, 19, 28, 29, 68), Zoological Garden (64, 75, 81).
The E. end of the Konig-Strasse, beyond the crossing of the
Kloster-Strasse and Neue Friedrich-Strasse (p. 154), is flanked by
colonnades (Komgs-Kolonnaden), built by Gontard in 1777 to form
the approach to the former Konigs-Brucke, which spanned the city-
Zt ?£\ & m°at W6re reD10Ved on the construction-of
the Stadtbahn. The name commemorates the formal entry of the