Leipziger Straße
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Leipziger Straße, or Leipziger Strasse, is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte district of Berlin, capital of Germany. It runs from Leipziger Platz, an octagonal square adjacent to Potsdamer Pla
View east along the street in 2009
Tietz department store, 1916
Wertheim department store in the 1920s
Reichstag until 1894
Prussian House of Lords
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The Prussian House of Lords in Berlin was the upper house of the Landtag of Prussia, the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the lower house, the House of Representatives, it formed
Leipziger Straße
…1894. The neighbouring house, former residence of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), was purchased by the Prussian state in 1856 as seat of the Prussian House of Lords. The present-day building which now houses the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Parliament, was erected between 1899 and 1903. After the House…
Courtyard on Leipziger Straße, c. 1900
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Former Mendelssohn residence, Leipziger Str. 3, before 1898