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thedral and the cupola of the Royal Palace. Farther on, the Marien-
Kirche, beyond the neighbouring Bonifazius-Kirche the Rathaus,
the Nicolai-Kirche and Petri-Kirche, the Georgen-Kirche and the
Markische Museum are visible, with the Church of the Holy Rood
in the foreground. To the E. are the Hasenheide and Rixdorf, and
to the S. lie the Tempelhofer Feld and Tempelhof.
In the Tempelhofer Felil the manoeuvres and reviews of the Berlin
garrison have taken place since the days of Frederick William I. (1721),
as also the great reviews of the Guards in the spring and autumn
(p. 31). — The village of Tempelhof (tramways Nos. 96, 97, and I;
station of the Siid-Ring, p. 13), with ca. 8000 inhab., belonged to the
Knights Templar down to 1319.
From the Potsdam Station (p. 127) the bulk of the traffic to
Schoneberg (comp. p. 174) runs to the E. through the Potsdamer-
Strasse, formerly a centre of the fashionable West End quarter, but
now a busy commercial thoroughfare. Among the monumental build¬
ings recently erected here, we may notice, on the right, Nos. 10-11,
Alt-Bayern (p. 10), built of basaltic lava, and on the left, Nos.
127-128, the Rolund-Haus (p. 9), in red sandstone, both built by
Walther, with handsome courts and sculptural adornments.
In the Link-Str., which diverges to the S. from the Potsdamer-Str.
not far from the Potsdamer-Platz, a memorial tablet at No. 7, marks the
house in which Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) Grimm, the
founders of Germanic philology, lived and died.
At the point where the Potsdamer-Str. is joined by the Viktoria-
Str. leading from the Kemper-Platz (p. 143), the Landwehr-Canal
(p. 171) is spanned by the Potsdamer und Viktoria Briicke
(PL G, HI), erected in 1N97-9N, on which are bronze seated statues
of four eminent men of science: Helmholtz (by Klein), Rontgen (by
Felderhof), Siemens (by Moser), and Gauss f by Janensch). — Along
the canal we may proced to the W. by pleasant streets past the Her¬
cules Bridge (p. 175) to the Zoological Garden. The Tiergarten
Quarter, between the canal and the Tiergarten, is the most fashion¬
able residential quarter in Berlin (comp. p. 54). Here, particularly
in the vicinity of the Zoologiral Garden, are numerous examples of
those self-contained houses standing in gardens of their own that
may be regarded as the most attractive achievements of architec¬
ture in Berlin since the days of Schinkel. Tiergarten-Str., see p. 176;
Bellevue-Str., p. 127. On this side of the canal, to the N. of the bridge,
are several public buildings of interest. No. Is Viktoria-Str., is the
Tel tow Court House, by Schwechten (1K91). In the Matthui-Kirch-
Str. (20-21) is the House of the Provincial Estates of Branden¬
burg, by Ende & Bockmann. — The Hofmann Haas, by March,
at Sigismund-Str. 4, was erected by the German Chemical So¬
ciety in 1900 in memory of August Wilhelm von Hofmann (d. Is',12),
the first president. — The large Renaissance building of the Impcr-