Leipziger Platz 12 was the address of a former mansion designed by

Friedrich Hitzig Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig (8 November 1811, in Berlin – 11 October 1881, in Berlin) was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After his diploma in ...

in Berlin, Germany. Located on the fashionable

Leipziger Platz Leipziger Platz is an octagonal square in the center of Berlin. It is located along Leipziger Straße just east of and adjacent to the Potsdamer Platz. History Layout and original architecture The square with the shape of an octagon, initi ...

, the building was the location of the British legation from 1859 to 1878, and the Turkish embassy from 1878 to 1896. The building was then demolished.http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/emkroller/PAPERS/BERLIN.PDF
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/ref> This was the only diplomatic building ever located in the square until the completion of the new Canadian embassy there in 2005.

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Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

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