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156 Section 8. BERLIN. Kloster-Kirche.
The rooms surround a court. Everywhere are lifesize costume figures.
— To the right in Room 1: Eastern Prussia (Lithuania), Silesia, Pomer-
ania (objects from Monchgut in the island of Rtigen), Schleswig-fiolstein,
Vierlande near Hamburg. Kitchen at the end of an E. Frisian 'house-place'
from the Leer district. — Corridor 2 leads to the Virchow Room (3):
Objects from the 'Old Country' near Hamburg, presented on the occasion
of Virchow's 70th birthday (1891). — Room 4: Hanover, Lippe, Oldenburg,,
Brunswick, Hesse, Saxony. — Room 5: Tbtlringen (Altenburg costumes),
Prussian Saxony (Halloren costume), Mark Brandenburg, Lusatia.—Room 6:
Peasant's room in the Spreewald; Alsatian peasant's room. — Through Cor¬
ridor 7 to Room 9: Swiss room with panelling (1644); fayence stove from
Winterthur. Baden (funeral cross from the Black Forest), Wurttemberg.
-Room 10: Bavaria. — Room 11: Chamber, kitchen, and larder from
Upper Austria.— Room 12: Austria, Tyrol. — Room 13: Tyrol (Sterzing
caTbinet of 1478), Salzburg. — Room 14: Models of houses: Upper Bavarian
house near Berchtesgaden, farm-houses from Hesse, the Kinzig valley
(Black Forest), the Spreewald, the Husum district, Westphalia (Osnabrtlck),
etc. German costumes. Salzburg and Swiss masks; rider on a white
horse. Ceramic collection. Women's caps and hats. Funeral objects
(funeral boards and painted skulls from Salzburg), ecclesiastical utensils,
offerings, festive utensils and pastry, superstition, peasants' medicine,
peasant's ornaments. Neapolitan 'Presepe' (ISth cent.).
Building; in the Court (apply to the attendant). Vestibule. Gothic
stove from Sterzing (Tyrol). Hindelopen room from Dutch Friesland;
walls lined with Delft tiles; carved cabinets. At the back, so-called
Besemer (fast) carriage. Room from Luneburg, with handsome panelling
of 1570.
Opposite, at Kloster-Strasse 76, is the Lagerhuus, used for
different purposes, built in 1706 on the site of the so-called 'Hohe
Haus', the Berlin residence of the margraves and early electors
before the palace was built (p. 47). Elector Frederick I. received the
homage of his subjects here in 1415. Behind rises the Royul Privy
Record Office (Geheime Staats-Archiv). — Adjacent (No. 75) is the
School of Art ('Kunstschnle'; director, Prof. Mohn), erected in
1877-80 by Gropius & Schmieden. Behind this, in the rooms once
used by Rauch as a studio, is the Rauch Museum (director, Prof.
E. Hundrieser), a collection of casts and models of the works of the
master, and the Rauch Archives. Adm., see p. 39; catalogue, 1 Jl.
Adjoining the School of Art is the Gymnasium zum Graven
Kloster, a grammar-school founded in 1574 and containing the
conventual and chapter-rooms (the latter dating from 1474) of the old
Franciscan monastery, in good preservation. A tablet on the outer
wall recalls the fact that Bismarck was a pupil here in 1830-32.
— The early-Gothic Kloster-Kirche (PI. R, 29), erected at the end
of the 13th cent., is, in virtue of its fine choir, the most interesting
mediaeval building in Berlin. The interior (sacristan, Propst-Str.
14-16) contains a painting in memory of Count Johann von Hohen-
lohe (d. 1412), a memorial stone of the poet Sam. Rodegast (d. 1708),
once rector of the 'Grey Convent', a large triumphal cross (late-
Gothic wood-carving), etc. The choir-stalls date from about 1500.
The church was restored in 1842-44, when the vestibule, staircase-
towers, and ridge-turret were added.