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The Berlin Palace, formerly known as the Royal Palace, is a large building adjacent to Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island in the Mitte area of Berlin. It was the main residence of the Electors of
The north and west façades of the reconstructed Berlin Palace. Completed in 2020, the palace now houses the Humboldt Forum museum.
The Berlin Palace (left) with the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument to Wilhelm I (destroyed 1950), c. 1900
The Berlin Palace with the Pharmacy Wing and the Spree side, c. 1900
The Berlin Palace (letter A) on the Memhardt-Plan, 1652
The Palace of the Republic was a building in Berlin that hosted the Volkskammer, the parliament of East Germany, from 1976 to 1990.
Berlin Palace
…German authorities in 1950. In the 1970s, the East German authorities erected a modernist parliamentary and cultural center on the site, known as the Palace of the Republic. After German reunification in 1990, and years of debate, particularly regarding the fraught historical legacy of both buildings, the Palace of the…
The Palace of the Republic in July 1990, three months before German reunification
Eastern face of the Palace of the Republic at night in August 1976, shortly after its completion
Erich Mielke, chief of the Stasi, speaking on 25 March 1983 as the club president of SV Dynamo who regularly held parties at the Palace of the Republic
The front façade of the Palace of the Republic in 1986 from Unter den Linden