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Gitschiner-Str. is the Imperial Patent Office, erected in 1905 from
designs by Solf and Wichards, one of the largest buildings in Berlin
(600 rooms).
Tramways (pp. 15-22) run from the Halle Gate and the Blucher-Platz
(S. side; I, II, and IV from here) to the Lehrte Station, Moabit (4, 7, 14, 15),
Gesundbrunnen (34, 38, 39,42, 43), the Opern-Platz (34, 39, 42, 43, 53, 55), the
Alexander-Platz (64, 73, 75), the Silesian Station (1, 1), Rixdorf (7, 15, 53,
55, I, II, V), Kreuzberg (34, 38, 43, '.Hi 97, I, II, V), Schoneberg (43,
82, 89, 90, I, II, V), the Anhalt Station and the Brandenburg Gate
(1, 7, 14, 15), the Donhoff-Platz (38, 39, 42, 64), the Friedrich-Str. "Station
(34, 42), the Gendarmen-Markt (34, 43, 53, 55, 73, 75, 96, 97), the Hackescher
Markt (38, 39, 53, 55), the Museum Island (39, 42, 53, 55), the Rathaus
(38, 42, 64, 73, 75), the Schloss-Platz (73, 75;, the Spittelmarkt (38, 64),
and the Stettin Station (4, 34, 43). For the Giiilitz Station, the Nollen-
dorf-Platz, the Potsdam Station, and the Zoological Garden Station the
Elevated Railway (see p. 14) is quicker.
Opposite the Halle Gate the Landwehr Canal is crossed by
the Belle-Alliance Bridge, 110 ft. wide, on the buttresses of which
stand marble groups of Navigation, Fishing, Industry, and Trade.
The canal is 6'/2 ^- >n length, and stretches from the Silesian Gate
to Charlottenburg, connecting the Upper and Lower Spree. — At the
S. end of the bridge is the Blilcher-Platz (PL G, 23), whence the
Tempelhof Quarter stretches to the S.
Near the Bliicher-Platz lie several old Cemetekies. Those of the
Jerusalemer- Kirche, the Neue Kirche, and the Dreifaltigkeits-Kirche are
connected, and have entrances from the Blticher-Platz (to the left), and
the Belle-AUiance-Str., the portion of the grounds lying along the Baruther-
Str. (to the S.) being of particular interest. Ey the S. wall of the E. section
is the grave of Iffland (A. 1814; comp. p. 48); close by, to the right of the
main path in the central section, lies F. Mend elssohn-Bartholdy (d. 1847).
Near the side-path to the left a handsome monument by Uphues marks
the last resting-place of H. von Stephan (d. 1897; comp. p. 125). A gateway
leads to the S.W. section, which contains the grave of A. von Chamisso (d.
1838), near the path along the S. wall, and that of E. Th. A. Hoffmann
(A. 1822; comp. p. 122), near the junction of the central path and that lead¬
ing off to the W.
The Bli(hki:-Si KAsse (PL G, 23, 26), which diverges from the
Bliicher-Platz to the S.E., passess (to the left) the Church of the
Holy Rood (Zum Heiligen. Kreuz; PL G, 23), a Gothic brick
structure erected in 18S5-SN by Otzeu. — The Bliiiher-Str. ends at
the Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz, in which rises the Second Protestant
Garrison ('hurch.
Several cemeteries lie to the S. W. of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz, in
the Bergmann-Str. In the Xeue Dreifaltigkeifs-Kirchhof, which lies
furthest to the W., are the graves of the poet Lndviy Tieck (d. 1853), the
philologist K. Lachmann (d. 1851), the theologian Schleiermacher (d. 1831;
eomp. p. 123), the historian Theod. Mmnmsen (A. 1903), and, on the E.
wall, Ad. von Menzel (A. 1905; bronze bust by R. Begas, p. 92).
To the E. extends the Hasknueiue street (PL G, 27,30), formerly,
when the pine-grove situated to the right was still accessible, a
favourite Sunday resort of the lower classes, lirer-gardens, seep. 11.
Near the end to the S., on a site within the district of Rixdorf, is a
gymnasium ground, with a bronze statue of F. L. John, the German